I propose adding an OpenSolaris HPC Developer Community. The goal of this community is to promote the use of OpenSolaris in High Performance Computing by providing tools, libraries, and utilities for developers on OpenSolaris. The scope will span shared and distributed memory development.
I'm in the Sun Performance Library group. We have several possible projects that may be of interest to the HPC Community. Here are a few examples. CBLAS for Solaris - The netlib cblas package does not work correctly with SunStudio compilers. The SunStudio mixed language programming model requires string lengths to be added to the end of the argument list for all string arguments when C calls Fortran. We would like to provide a CBLAS with these arguments. CORD(COurse Region Data flow) API - This API provides capability similar to OpenMP work queues only more powerful. Data dependencies are specified between tasks. This allows developers to more fully exploit parallelism in algorithms that are more complicated than a set of independent tasks. AlgoVis (Algorithm Visualizer) - AlgoVis records memory references during an application execution. It then maps these references to Matrix and Vector objects and displays a movie of the execution to help developers visual algorithms. Iterative Solvers -provide iterative methods for common matrices, symmetric matrices, large and ill-conditioned systems, etc. Common Numerical Library - Common Numerical computations outside of linear algebra including differential equations and systems, stiff systems, approximation, polynomial interpolation, spline approximation, integration, Cluster Library - Provide parallel distributed computation for clusters. There is a large interest in HPC Development inside and outside of Sun. Internal to Sun, the HPC interest discussion list boasts 289 members. Existing open source interest is demonstrated by projects such as LinuxHPC.org which claims to have 750+ visitors daily. There may be some overlap with the performance community in regard to some aspects of performance tuning. Thanks, Brad Lewis This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
