Guest Editors' Note: Special Issue On High-Performance Stencil Computations

This workshop is the first in a new series of workshops intended to address current and upcoming challenges and developments in the area of stencil computations. Today, real-world stencil codes are often hand-tuned which requires a huge amount of engineering effort given the variety of stencil codes in use. Therefore, simplifying the task of constructing stencil codes that deliver high performance has become an important topic in research. HiStencils focuses on stencil computations from embedded environments to exascale computing and advanced software technology needed to simplify the construction of stencils codes delivering high performance. The workshop has been supported by the German Research Fund (DFG) priority programme 1648 ”Software for Exascale Computing”.