Looking for SciLib
I recall seeing several times someone mentioning they were working on a project called "SciLib" or "SciLb" or similar. If you're that person or if you know who that person is, could you send me an e-mail? Paul
Re: Looking for SciLib
Paul D. Anderson Wrote: > I recall seeing several times someone mentioning they were > working on a project called "SciLib" or "SciLb" or similar. If > you're that person or if you know who that person is, could you > send me an e-mail? > > Paul Maybe you mean this project: https://github.com/kyllingstad/scid/wiki
Re: Looking for SciLib
On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 22:42:58 UTC, jerro wrote: Paul D. Anderson Wrote: I recall seeing several times someone mentioning they were working on a project called "SciLib" or "SciLb" or similar. If you're that person or if you know who that person is, could you send me an e-mail? Paul Maybe you mean this project: https://github.com/kyllingstad/scid/wiki Yes, that's it exactly. Thanks!
Re: Looking for SciLib
Maybe you mean this project: https://github.com/kyllingstad/scid/wiki Yes, that's it exactly. Thanks! Note that Christi's fork contains important new code from GSoC.
Re: Looking for SciLib
On 20/12/2011 22:45, Paul D. Anderson wrote: On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 22:42:58 UTC, jerro wrote: Paul D. Anderson Wrote: I recall seeing several times someone mentioning they were working on a project called "SciLib" or "SciLb" or similar. If you're that person or if you know who that person is, could you send me an e-mail? Paul Maybe you mean this project: https://github.com/kyllingstad/scid/wiki Yes, that's it exactly. Thanks! or this?...seems contain further development https://github.com/cristicbz/scid
Re: Looking for SciLib
On 12/20/2011 5:58 PM, filgood wrote: or this?...seems contain further development https://github.com/cristicbz/scid I mentored that GSoC project, so since people appear to be interested in it I'll give a status report. The GSoC project was left in a somewhat rough/half-finished state at the end of GSoC because of several unanticipated problems and the ambitious (possibly overly so) nature of the project. Cristi (the GSoC student I mentored) and I have been slowly improving things since the end of GSoC but both of us have limited time to work on it. From GSoC we got a solid set of matrix/vector containers and an expression template system. AFAIK there are no major issues with these. The expression template system supports addition, subtraction, multiplication and division/inversion with matrices, vectors and scalars. The expression template evaluator works well for general matrix storage, but is badly broken for packed matrices (e.g. triangular, symmetric, diagonal). Fixing this is time consuming but is a simple matter of programming. I'm starting to implement Lapack wrappers for common matrix factorizations in scid.linalg. These are tedious to write because of the obtuseness of the Lapack API and the need to support both a high-level interface and one that allows very explicit memory management. Again, though, it's a simple matter of programming. There are a few performance problems that need to be ironed out (though perhaps I should do some benchmarking before I claim so boldly that these problems are serious). See https://github.com/cristicbz/scid/issues/77 . After the above issues are resolved, I think the next thing on the roadmap would be to start building on this foundation to add support for higher level scientific computing stuff. For example, I have a bunch of statistics/machine learning code (https://github.com/dsimcha/dstats) that was written before SciD existed. I'm slowly integrating with SciD's current foundation and will probably merge it with SciD once SciD is more stable and bug-free.
Re: Looking for SciLib
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:38:05 +0100, Paul D. Anderson wrote: > I recall seeing several times someone mentioning they were working on a > project called "SciLib" or "SciLb" or similar. If you're that person or > if you know who that person is, could you send me an e-mail? Hi! Author of SciD here. I know you've gotten some replies already, but I just thought I'd clarify a few things. As you've been told, you can find SciD at GitHub: https://github.com/kyllingstad/scid/wiki It's been a while since I added anything new to it, but the project is by no means dead. If you find any bugs, please let me know, and I will fix them as soon as I am able. As others have pointed out, Cristi Cobzarenco forked my code when he was writing a linear algebra library for GSoC. However, in the process he has removed almost everything that is not related to linear algebra. In other words, if you are looking for a linear algebra library, you should get Cristi's library, whereas if you are looking for calculus or nonlinear equation solvers you should check out mine. (My library has some linear algebra stuff in it as well, but it is pretty limited, feature-wise.) Let me know if you have any questions. :) -Lars
Re: Looking for SciLib
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 15:52:25 Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: > As others have pointed out, Cristi Cobzarenco forked my code when he was > writing a linear algebra library for GSoC. However, in the process he > has removed almost everything that is not related to linear algebra. Sounds like they should probably be merged at some point. - Jonathan M Davis
Re: Looking for SciLib
On Monday, 26 December 2011 at 00:46:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Sounds like they should probably be merged at some point. - Jonathan M Davis Yeah, I've started working on Cristi's fork now that I've built a good enough mental model of the implementation details that I can modify the code. This fork is still very much a work in progress. A merge with Lars's code is a good idea at some point, but right now debugging and fleshing out the linalg stuff is a higher priority.
Re: Looking for SciLib
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:13:53 +0100, dsimcha wrote: > On Monday, 26 December 2011 at 00:46:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> Sounds like they should probably be merged at some point. >> >> - Jonathan M Davis > > Yeah, I've started working on Cristi's fork now that I've built a good > enough mental model of the implementation details that I can modify the > code. This fork is still very much a work in progress. A merge with > Lars's code is a good idea at some point, but right now debugging and > fleshing out the linalg stuff is a higher priority. So submitting Cristi's library for inclusion in Phobos is now off the table? -Lars
Re: Looking for SciLib
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:52:25 +, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: > It's been a while since I added anything new to it, but the project is > by no means dead. If you find any bugs, please let me know, and I will > fix them as soon as I am able. I just noticed that SciD didn't compile due to some changes in recent compiler versions. I've fixed and updated it now. -Lars
Re: Looking for SciLib
On Monday, 26 December 2011 at 10:11:01 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: So submitting Cristi's library for inclusion in Phobos is now off the table? -Lars In the _near_ future, yes. It's still too much of a work in progress. Submitting to Phobos is still the eventual goal, though.
