Kppa was designed and developed by Dr. John C. Linford (jlinford@paratools.com).  
Special thanks to:
    * Dr. Adrian Sandu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
    * Dr. John Michalakes (National Center for Atmospheric Research),
    * Dr. Sameer Shende and Dr. Allen Malony (ParaTools, Inc.)

Kppa was developed from published literature including:

J.C. Linford.  "Accelerating Atmospheric Modeling Through Emerging 
    Multi-core Technologies", Doctoral Dissertation, 2010, Virginia 
    Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA. 
J.C. Linford, J. Michalakes, M. Vachharijani, and A. Sandu, "Automatic 
    Generation of Multi-Core Chemical Kernels", IEEE TPDS: Special Issue
    on High-Performance Computing with Accelerators, Vol. 22, No. 1, 
    p. 119-131, 2011.
J.C. Linford and A. Sandu, "Scalable heterogeneous parallelism for 
    atmospheric modeling and simulation", J. Supercomputing, Vol. 56, No. 3,
    p. 300-327, 2011.
J.C. Linford, J. Michalakes, M. Vachharijani, and A. Sandu,  "Multi-core 
    acceleration of chemical kinetics for modeling and simulation",  
    SC'09.  Portland, OR.  Nov 14-20, 2009.
A. Sandu and R. Sander, "Technical note: Simulating chemical systems in 
    Fortran90 and Matlab with the Kinetic PreProcessor KPP-2.1", 
    Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 6, p. 187-195, 2005.
A. Sandu, D. Daescu, and G.R. Carmichael, "Direct and Adjoint Sensitivity
    Analysis of Chemical Kinetic Systems with KPP: I -- Theory and Software 
    Tools", Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 37, p. 5083-5096, 2003.
D. Daescu, A. Sandu, and G.R. Carmichael, "Direct and Adjoint Sensitivity
    Analysis of Chemical Kinetic Systems with KPP: II -- Validation and 
    Numerical Experiments", Atmospheric Environment, 
    Vol. 37, p. 5097-5114, 2003.
V. Damian, A. Sandu, M. Damian, F. Potra, and G.R. Carmichael,
    "The Kinetic PreProcessor KPP -- A Software Environment for Solving
    Chemical Kinetics", Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 26, 
    No. 11, p. 1567-1579, 2002.
A. Sandu, J. Verwer, J. Blom, J. Spee, G.R. Carmichael, and F. Potra,
    "Benchmarking stiff ODE solvers for atmospheric chemistry problems II:
    Rosenbrock solvers", Atmos. Environ., Vol. 31, p. 3459-3472, 1997.  
A. Sandu, F. Potra, V. Damian, and G.R. Carmichael, "Efficient 
    implementation of fully implicit methods for atmospheric chemistry",
    J. Comp. Phys., No. 129, p. 101-110, 1996.
E. Hairer and G. Wanner, "Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II.
    Stiff and Differential-Algebraic Problems", Springer-Verlag, 
    Berlin, 1991.

Kppa was inspired KPP 2.1, which was developed by V. Damian, A. Sandu, 
M. Damian, F. Potra, and G.R. Carmichael.  No part of KPP is used in Kppa.

