Re: [boost] [math] Summer of Code

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-24 12:03:38

Johan Råde wrote:
> A typical data mining scenario might be to calculate the cdf for the
> t- or F-distribution for
> each value in an array of say 100,000 single or double precision
> floating point numbers.
> (I tend to use double precision.)
> Anything that could speed up that task would be interesting.

Nod, the question is what the actual combination of arguments that get 
passed to the incomplete beta are: if the data isn't unduely sensitive, what 
would be really useful is to have a log of those values so we can see which 
parts of the implementation are getting hammered the most.

> SEE parallelism, if possible, would be interesting.
>
> Multi-core parallelism is less interesting,
> that is already easy to do, for instance  using OpenMP.
>
> Then there are the issues brought up by Stephen Nuchia:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/173840

Nod, there's a lot that can be done, but ground is going to be won a yard at 
a time :-(

John.