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| Nice work! Is it for D2 or D1? Or both?
--bb
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Fawzi Mohamed <fawzi@gmx.ch> wrote:
> I am happy to announce blip 0.5
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> http://dsource.org/projects/blip
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> why 0.5? because it works for me, but hopefully it will work for others too, and 1.0 will be a release with more contributors...
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> Blip is a library that offers
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> * N-dimensional arrays (blip.narray) that have a nice interface to lapack
> (that leverages the wrappers of baxissimo)
> * 2,3 and 4D vectors, matrixes and quaternions from the omg library of
> h3r3tic
> * multidimensional arrays, with nice to use wrappers to blas/lapack
> * a testing framework that can cope both with combinatorial and random
> testing
> this means that you can define an environment (be it struct or class,
> maybe even templatized)
> and then define generators that create one such environment (see
> blip.rtest.BasicGenerators)
> then you can define testing functions that will receive newly generated
> environments and do the tests
> * serialization (blip.serialization) that supports both json format, that
> can be used also for input files and an
> efficient binary representation
> * MPI parallelization built on the top of mpi, but abstracting it away (so
> that a pure tcp implementation is possible),
> for tightly coupled parallelization
> * a Distribued Objects framework that does rpc via proxies
> (blip.parallel.rpc)
> * a simple socket library that can be used to connect external programs,
> even if written in fortran or C (for a weak parallel coupling)
> * a coherent and efficient io abstraction
>
> But what might be most interesting is.
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> * SMP parallelization (blip.parallel.smp) a numa aware very flexible
> framework
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> a parallelization framework that can cope well with both thread like and
> data like parallelism, integrated with libev
> to offer efficient socket i/o and much more.
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> An overview of blip is given in
> http://dsource.org/projects/blip/wiki/BlipOverview
> The parallelization is discussed in
> http://dsource.org/projects/blip/wiki/ParallelizationConcepts
> finally to install it see
> http://dsource.org/projects/blip/wiki/GettingStarted
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> enjoy
>
> Fawzi
>
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Posted in reply to Bill Baxter | On 11/18/10 1:12 AM, Bill Baxter wrote:
> Nice work! Is it for D2 or D1? Or both?
> --bb
I hope you don't mind me answering, Fawzi:
Currently, it's D1 only.
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November 18, 2010 Re: blip 0.5 | ||||
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Posted in reply to klickverbot | On 18-nov-10, at 01:49, klickverbot wrote: > On 11/18/10 1:12 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: >> Nice work! Is it for D2 or D1? Or both? >> --bb > > I hope you don't mind me answering, Fawzi: sure I don't mind, actually I hope more people will get involved :) > Currently, it's D1 only. yes, indeed, I have considered D2, and there are things that I like about it, but as of now it is still too early for me to switch to it. - I am not too keen on fighting again will obscure threading bugs (but Sean is very helpfully considering my changes and adding them to druntime, so that might go well). - I need a stable 64 bit compiler, that is coming, but is not there yet - I feel that in general if I delay a bit my job will just get easier - D2 will need porting and testing, now I would rather use my library In any case that is a good topic, so I posted about it in digitalmars-d Fawzi |
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