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ViennaCL Developer Meetings

Karl Rupp edited this page May 17, 2014 · 4 revisions

This page lists our developer meetings and provides a history of previous meetings (including protocols). These meetings are open to everybody and we are always happy to welcome users. Feel free to suggest new features, provide feedback on what works well and not-so-well, etc.

Next meeting

To be determined...

Meeting on May 17, 2014:

Topics:

  • Defining features of the 1.6.0 release:
    • Full integration of the scheduler, but no kernel fusion magic yet
    • All HTML-based documentation based on Doxygen 1.8.x
    • Document kernel caching option through environment variables
    • Reduce use of uBLAS
    • API for reductions
  • Next steps for PyViennaCL
    • Follow the GSoC project proposal
    • Integrate remaining ViennaCL features which are not yet available through PyViennaCL
    • Multi-backend support asks for a plugin-infrastructure. Will be dealt with statically precompiled binaries for the moment.
  • Benchmark GUI:
    • Not entirely in QML, but try to include cool packages like http://www.flotcharts.org/ or http://canvasjs.com/
    • First prototype eventually next weekend
    • Gallery for selecting sparse matrices from the matrix market under consideration
    • Custom sparse matrix loader
  • STL-functionality by Albert:
    • Contribute via fork + pull requests
    • start with PoC radix sort
    • full throttle from June 2nd (Karli provides milestone list till then)
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