Re: [boost] A possible GSOC 2011 proposal idea

Subject: Re: [boost] A possible GSOC 2011 proposal idea
From: Thomas Klimpel (Thomas.Klimpel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-21 10:37:56

Chad Seibert wrote:
> Yes, it does. However, it seems inappropriate to write an LP library
> for Boost that uses LAPACK to do the linear algebra stuff. If we wanted to
> go down that road, we could just write a wrapper for an existing lp
> library instead, like what OpenOpt does.

I have to disagree here. We have Boost.MPI, which builds on top of existing MPI implementations instead of trying to reinvent MPI. Now the sandbox numeric bindings project (<http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/numeric_bindings>) probably will never be able to compete with Boost.MPI in terms of perfection, but it seems to be quite usable nevertheless. There are projects like NT2 or eigen, which try to do better/different than BLAS/LAPACK and succeeded more or less. However, I don't see which benefit it would bring if you try to compete with them during a GSOC project.

Regards,
Thomas