My first thought would be to have some particular C routines to perform a transformation on a matrix. This would not be that difficult I guess. Well.. We have to see. We will likely enter the optimization phase in a couple of months from now.
Alexandre On May 8, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Chris Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > So, Hannes may have been referring to optimizing the slow parts of the > process in Native Boost directly instead of using an external library (if > not, may I suggest it?). It is possible that just a few tweaks using > Assembler in the process would get the speed up to an acceptable level, which > would be determined by profiling the performance. Of course, that path > requires someone on your project that can understand Assembler to get > familiar with NativeBoost. > -cbc > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> > wrote: > We will surely review all the different options for interacting with external > libraries. Ronie is our local expert :-) > > Currently, we have no preview of the Roassal book to share. Give us a couple > of months :-) > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > > On May 8, 2014, at 9:23 AM, H. Hirzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Interesting project, Alexandre! > > > > On 5/6/14, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Kilon for your nice words. > >> Currently, AstroCloud is a bit slow. For example, loading this image takes > >> much more than it should. For now, speed is not our priority. AstroCloud > >> has > >> to be fast and we will make it fast. Probably relying on external library > >> is > >> the way to go. > > > > I assume you consider or have considered NativeBoost as well? > > > >> > >> Just to give a bit more context about why we are doing AstroCloud. ALMA is > >> the largest observatory on Earth, making it the largest astronomical > >> project > >> in existence (http://www.almaobservatory.org). This is what humanity has > >> best to detect life outside Earth. > >> ALMA is made of 66 high-precision antenas making it possible to see deep in > >> the universe. Unfortunately, there is no good software to process these > >> immensely complex pictures. Some tool suite naturally exist, but they were > >> not made for ALMA, making these existing tools largely suboptimal to > >> process > >> complex picture of ALMA. > >> Faviola’s dream (and mine) is to produce a tool ready to be consumed by > >> astronomers to process ALMA pictures. Faviola and I are currently seeking > >> for additional resources on making this happen. > > > > > >> Regarding your help about documenting Roassal. It is very welcome! In one > >> of > >> my previous post, I said that 2014 will be the year of documenting Roassal. > >> A book is on its way. > > > > > >> We will need people to review it. So thanks! > > > > Preview of part of it on line? > > > > > > Regards > > Hannes > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Moose-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
