The first stable release of the 3.x series of MetaScale’s open-source
software is available: NT² 3.0. It also includes its spin-off project,
Boost.SIMD (not yet a Boost library). Many Issues have been closed since
last beta. The main focus of this release cycle was to fix performances
issues and to stabilize some parts of the API.
Next step will be to separate NT2 and Boost.SIMD into separate
repositories, thus making one more step toward Boost.SIMD submission
into review.
[ http://www.metascale.org/nt%C2%B2-3-0-and-boost-simd ]
*Changes & Bug Fixes:*
- Major performance improvements in both libraries
- Added experimental support for the HPX runtime for parallelization
on shared memory systems
- Optimizations of many elemental functions, in particuler log/ex,
frexp/ldexp and cbrt
- More advanced shuffle pattern recognition for SIMD
- Fixed issues with Visual Studio 2013
- More functions are force-inlined to ensure good performance
- New functions for conversion between types and mixing of vectors of
different sizes
- Demo applications usable as benchmarks
- Better handling of errors when an unsupported function is called
- New API for custom memory allocators
Full changelog is available at
https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2/releases/tag/3.0.0.
*How to get it ?*
- Source and binary packages can be downloaded here:
http://nt2.metascale.org/downloads
- The release is also available on Github :
https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2/releases
- The main master branch is still under development :
https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2
Dear Boost community,
We are now just five days away from the closing date for Google
Summer of Code 2014 registration. Last year's GSoC was a huge
success, with Google funding work on Boost to the tune of $35,000 and
paying over $8,000 in costs for three representatives of Boost to
attend the GSoC mentor's summit at Google HQ.
As part of filling in our application for 2014, we must supply to
Google a list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects
for summer 2014. We do NOT want a repeat of 2012 when our application
was rejected due to an insufficiently long list of prospective
mentors and projects! At the time of writing, we have just *eight*
prospective mentors, and we need more to be sure of being approved by
Google!
Therefore, if you think yourself able to mentor a student doing some
work on Boost this summer, *please* consider adding a description of
the proposed work item and your name to the list at
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014.
If you want to know more about mentoring a Google Summer of Code
funded student work before you nominate yourself, please feel free to
ask on the main Boost developers mailing list boost(a)lists.boost.org.
Thank you in advance for your time.
Niall Douglas (Boost Google Summer of Code admin)
Boris Schäling (Boost Google Summer of Code backup admin)
