Re: [boost] Regarding boost.math library

From: Anup Mandvariya (anupmandvariya_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-14 05:03:56

On 4/14/08, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Anup Mandvariya wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have some queries related with boost.math library as ststed below:
> >
> > a) Is it possible to write many of the functions in the boost.math
> > library (like beta and gamma functions) so that they can be
> > parallelized
> > irrespective of the "way of parallelization"(such as using OpenMP,
> > MPI, etc...) and the "environment" (like multicore or a cluster)?
>
> I don't know, you would need to devise an parrallelisation API that's
> independent of the underlying mechanism, given that OpenMP uses #pragmas
> and
> MPI code I'm not sure that's really feasable.  The alternative would be
> lot's of #if..#else logic I guess :-(
>
> > b) What is the possibility of extending boost.math libraries
> > (particularly beta and gamma functions) to generic libraries using
> > generic programming process?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean - they are intended to be generic
> already - and work with any type that satisfies the requirements here
>
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/math_toolkit/using_udt/concepts.html
>
> So for example I already use them with NTL::RR and also have experimental
> versions which work with Boost.Interval and/or mpfr_class.
>
> Is this what you meant?
>
> HTH, John.
>
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Thanks John,
My second query was,
If is it possible to generalize these libraries so that they can
be parallelize both for shared-memory as well as distributed-distributed
memory?

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Anup Mandvariya
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