Flamingo

Flamingo is a general-purpose auto-tuning framework for software optimisation developed by Ben Spencer.

The software automates the process of finding optimal settings for program parameters, even reducing the number of tests needed.

These parameters would typically control how a program performs, for example the sub-problem size a large problem is broken down into.

Flamingo began as a third year undergraduate project, and was then further developed as part of ongoing work on OP2 with funding from an EPSRC vacation bursary.