PDL Developers- I had the pleasure to meet zowie in person for dinner this week and a chance to talk PDL. That makes 2 core developers that I have met. It was nice to hear some of the ways that he has been using PDL in his work and some of the context from the earlier days of PDL.
Now, that PDL-2.015 is out, I think it is time for us to shift focus to the new PDL projects: * PDLA which splits up the existing monolithic PDL distribution into a set of core functionality and external (non-core) modules that provide the rest. Ed and Zaki have been leading the charge here. * PDL Next Gen (PDLng): which is a completely re-engineered PDL core computation and data engine to replace and supercede the existing PDL-2.x core functionality. I plan to give a more in-depth update on my ideas, hopes, and plans for PDLng by the New Year. I expect that Zaki and Ed might have some updates of their own. To whet your appetite, here are some URLs tied to various ideas that have been floated for PDLng that Craig and I discussed and could be the seeds for some of the next generation PDL capability: ArrayFire GPGPU parallel computing: http://www.arrayfire.com/docs/index.htm This could give PDLng a quick start for high performance using GPUs. COS, the C Object System: https://github.com/CObjectSystem/COS/blob/master/doc/cos-draft-dls09.pdf https://github.com/CObjectSystem/COS This could give PDLng an object oriented interface that maintains a C FFI so that PDLng could call or be called from other languages. Matplotlib anyone? HDF5 Attributes: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/UG/13_Attributes.html I was thinking that our PDLng implementation should cover the bases from FITS, HDF5, named dimensions,.. Ingo has already done some work along these lines. In the meantime, I'm going to try to get Perl OpenGLup to modern OpenGL APIs and allow for improved and more flexible graphics options for PDL-2.x and PDLng. --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ pdl-devel mailing list pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-devel
