Re: [boost] GSoC

Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC
From: Utsav Tiwary (utsav.tiwary2011_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-02 07:59:22

No one has yet agreed to mentor the project idea. The idea does seem ripe
though.

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Christopher Kormanyos <e_float_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> > And we also would like to mentor a GSOC project about implicit
> > methods in odeint. There are extremely important to solve PDEs.
>
> * Is the idea ripe enough for formulation?
> * Is there a committed mentor?
>
> Might the potential mentor formally add the project to the list here:
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014
>
> Or is the potential project already there, and I'm too dumb to
> recognize it?
>
>
> Cheers, Chris.
>
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> On Saturday, February 1, 2014 9:31 PM, Larry Evans <
> cppljevans_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On 02/01/14 13:19, Karsten Ahnert wrote:
> > On 02/01/2014 03:47 PM, Utsav Tiwary wrote:
> >> Does it involve the use of parallel programming ? If not, is doing it a
> >> good idea ?
> >
> > There was a GSOC last year about parallelization of odeint with MPI and
> > OpenMP [1]. I think it was successful, although the code has not yet
> > been merged into the odeint trunk. Parallelization with GPUs already
> > works with the help of Thrust, VexCL or ViennaCL.
> >
> > odeint is a library devoted to solve the initial value problem of ODEs.
> > I think building shooting methods for boundary value problems on top of
> > odeint would be a good idea. And we also would like to mentor a GSOC
> > project about implicit methods in odeint. There are extremely important
> > to solve PDEs.
> >
> Back in June, 2011, petros posted a question to the user's list
> about multi-array and pdes:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/68017
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> Later, he posted a question about rotating the arrays axes:
>
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/68718/match=multi_array+rotated+views
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> to help solve a pde using ADI (Alternating Direction Implicit):
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>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/71096
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> In response, I prototyped a method using ADI and mentioned it
> here:
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/71047
>
> HTH.
>
> -regards,
>
> Larry
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