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digitalmars.D.announce - blip 0.5

reply Fawzi Mohamed <fawzi gmx.ch> writes:
I am happy to announce blip 0.5

	http://dsource.org/projects/blip

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...

Blip is a library that offers

  * 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.

  * SMP parallelization (blip.parallel.smp) a numa aware very flexible  
framework

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.

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

enjoy

Fawzi
Nov 17 2010
parent "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> writes:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:42:49 +0100, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:


 I am happy to announce blip 0.5
 
 	http://dsource.org/projects/blip
 
 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...
 
 Blip is a library that offers
 
   * 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.
 
   * SMP parallelization (blip.parallel.smp) a numa aware very flexible
 framework
 
 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.
 
 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
 
 enjoy
 
 Fawzi


This looks pretty good.  Too bad it's only for D1.  I'll be keeping an 
eye out for a D2 version in the future. ;)

-Lars
Nov 18 2010