December 2015 - Boost-users

Boost 1.60.0 beta 1 Release Candidate 4 available for testing
by Marshall Clow 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

After far too long, release candidate files for 1.60.0 beta 4 are available at http://boost.cowic.de/rc/ As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy. This helps ensure the candidates build OK before we push them out to SourceForge. Changes since rc3: * Boost.Test has been updated and now builds on Visual Studio Changes since rc1: * Boost.Sprit has been updated and Boost.Log now builds. * Boost.Math has been updated and now builds. Known issues (which will not be fixed for the beta): * Errors when building Boost.TypeErasure for older versions of Visual Studio. * Boost.Test fails when building on Darwin with gcc 4.9.2 The files (and associated md5s) are: MD5 (boost_1_60_0_b1_rc4.7z) = 63530c9594b24f56e5df79d910c9daeb MD5 (boost_1_60_0_b1_rc4.tar.bz2) = 29af12a1028536219a21517e953df4eb MD5 (boost_1_60_0_b1_rc4.tar.gz) = 74df7f5eb5e32f3a92b6141af3c6f541 MD5 (boost_1_60_0_b1_rc4.zip) = 90c25c34b64eb6cc88845ec5372938d7 Thanks! -- The release managers

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Re: [Boost-users] [BGL] parallel BGL does not scale
by Quaglino Alessio 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Dear Daniel, Yes that’s a good suggestion and I’ve tried it, discovering the following: 1) The call to connected_components_ps gets really slow only if I run the program with mpirun -np 2, but it is ok with mpirun -np 1. Why is this the case? I need to be able to control how many cores I am using to do scaling tests, is this possible with the parallel BGL? 2) Apart from the above, the really slow part is now the graph construction. This takes about 10 times more than the call to connected_components_ps (but it wasn’t the case with the non-parallel BGL). Regards, Alessio > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:00:21 +0100 > From: Daniel Hofmann <daniel(a)trvx.org> > To: boost-users(a)lists.boost.org > Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [BGL] parallel BGL does not scale > Message-ID: <566ED985.2000403(a)trvx.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Can you try a problem size that takes longer than the sub-second > workload your posted? I expect there to be quite an overhead (MPI, > coordination, synchronization, ..) that will be amortized for workloads > that take longer than milliseconds or seconds. > > Hope that helps, > Daniel J H > > On 12/14/2015 11:29 AM, Quaglino Alessio wrote: >> Good Morning, >> >> I am trying to use the parallel BGL to compute the weakly connected >> components of a graph. I have managed to obtain the correct results with >> the code pasted below, however I am getting the following times: >> >> - Sequential BGL 0.01 seconds >> - Parallel BGL on 1 core 0.04 seconds >> - Parallel BGL on 2 cores 0.64 seconds >> >> That doesn?t look right to me. What am I doing wrong? >> >> usingnamespaceboost; >> using boost::graph::distributed::mpi_process_group; >> typedef adjacency_list<vecS, distributedS<mpi_process_group, vecS>, >> undirectedS> Graph; >> typedef iterator_property_map<std::vector<int>::iterator, >> property_map<Graph, vertex_index_t>::type> LocalMap; >> >> int getConnectedComponents(std::vector< std::pair<int,int> > &arcs, >> const std::vector<int> &isActive) { >> >> // Allocate structures >> Graph G(nV+1); >> std::vector<int> localComponent(nV+1); >> std::vector<int> globalComponent(nV+1); >> >> // Only rank 0 has got the arc data structure >> if( rank == 0 ) { >> >> // Add dummy edges to each vertex (required to avoid BGL crash >> for a single node with no edges) >> for( int i=0; i<nV; i++ ) add_edge(vertex(i,G),vertex(i,G),G); >> >> // Add edges to the graph >> for(std::vector<std::pair<int,int> >::iterator it = >> arcs.begin(); it != arcs.end(); ++it) >> if( isActive[arcCnt++]==0 ) >> add_edge(vertex(it->first,G),vertex(it->second,G),G); >> } >> >> >> >> synchronize(G); >> >> // Compute number of connected components >> LocalMap components(localComponent.begin(),get(vertex_index, G)); >> int num = connected_components_ps(G, components); >> >> // Let rank 0 collect the global component vector >> if( rank == 0 ) { >> components.set_max_ghost_cells(0); >> for( PetscInt i = 0; i < nV+1; i++ ) globalComponent[i] = >> get(components, vertex(i, G)); >> } >> >> synchronize(components); >> } >> >> >> Regards, >> ------------------------------------------------- >> Alessio Quaglino >> Postdoctoral Researcher >> University of Lugano >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Boost-users mailing list >> Boost-users(a)lists.boost.org >> http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users >>

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[BGL] parallel BGL does not scale
by Quaglino Alessio 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Good Morning, I am trying to use the parallel BGL to compute the weakly connected components of a graph. I have managed to obtain the correct results with the code pasted below, however I am getting the following times: - Sequential BGL 0.01 seconds - Parallel BGL on 1 core 0.04 seconds - Parallel BGL on 2 cores 0.64 seconds That doesn’t look right to me. What am I doing wrong? using namespace boost; using boost::graph::distributed::mpi_process_group; typedef adjacency_list<vecS, distributedS<mpi_process_group, vecS>, undirectedS> Graph; typedef iterator_property_map<std::vector<int>::iterator, property_map<Graph, vertex_index_t>::type> LocalMap; int getConnectedComponents(std::vector< std::pair<int,int> > &arcs, const std::vector<int> &isActive) { // Allocate structures Graph G(nV+1); std::vector<int> localComponent(nV+1); std::vector<int> globalComponent(nV+1); // Only rank 0 has got the arc data structure if( rank == 0 ) { // Add dummy edges to each vertex (required to avoid BGL crash for a single node with no edges) for( int i=0; i<nV; i++ ) add_edge(vertex(i,G),vertex(i,G),G); // Add edges to the graph for(std::vector<std::pair<int,int> >::iterator it = arcs.begin(); it != arcs.end(); ++it) if( isActive[arcCnt++]==0 ) add_edge(vertex(it->first,G),vertex(it->second,G),G); } synchronize(G); // Compute number of connected components LocalMap components(localComponent.begin(),get(vertex_index, G)); int num = connected_components_ps(G, components); // Let rank 0 collect the global component vector if( rank == 0 ) { components.set_max_ghost_cells(0); for( PetscInt i = 0; i < nV+1; i++ ) globalComponent[i] = get(components, vertex(i, G)); } synchronize(components); } Regards, ------------------------------------------------- Alessio Quaglino Postdoctoral Researcher University of Lugano

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by daniele.barzotti＠eurocomtel.com 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

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Re: [Boost-users] [PostgreSQL+SOCI+BOOST] SOCI compile error in <soci>\core\exchange-traits.h with PG and SOCI on Windows
by Lawry, Brian 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

>> Hi. >> This isn't strictly a Boost question but I?ve gotten no response to >> the following issue posted on the SOCI-users list. [See http://sourceforge.net/p/soci/mailman/message/34675052/ for original message.] >> Thanks. >It's not exactly true. >You've already been answered in SOCI mailing list http://sourceforge.net/p/soci/mailman/message/34675052/ >Could you check proposed solution? >Best Regards, >Sergei Nikulov Hi Segei. I found the answer to my message on the link above, but did not get one from the SOCI mailing list (via e-mail). The workaround from https://github.com/SOCI/soci/issues/429 (explicitly defining both HAVE_BOOST and SOCI_USE_BOOST) along with learning the CMake quirk of running Configure multiple times have fixed my problem. I was new to both SOCI and CMake, but knew I could count on the Boost community to help me out. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Brian

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Convert big endian to little endian (floating point values)
by Martin Vymazal 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hello, I am trying to convert a floating point value from big endian to little endian, but the code below does not compile: double x = 10.0; const double x_big_endian = boost::endian::native_to_big(x); boost::endian::native_to_big_inplace(x); and the compiler (gcc 5.2) only offers overloads for integer types. This is with boost 1.59. Are floating point values currently supported (the website of boost::endian says so)? Am I doing something wrong? Thank you. Martin

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[dynamic_bitset] arbitrarily wide bitset
by Michael Powell 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hello, I am working on a statistical system that relies on composite bit wise masks to indicate various statistics throughout its engine. Bit wise "vocabulary" is known at compile time and may be of arbitrary length, although consistent across vocabulary categories. I am curious how wide dynamic_bitset may be? Potentially, std::bitset<N> is sufficiently up to the task? Should also be serializable; i.e. composite masks may be formed. Should also be capable of serving as a map key; i.e. a lookup of statistical values. Reading a couple of blogs, on SO, for instance, it seems like this should be doable. Reference: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/bitset http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/bitset/bitset/ http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/libs/dynamic_bitset/dynamic_bitset.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14433626/variable-size-bitset http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3896357/unordered-hash-map-from-bitset-t… Example: https://ideone.com/fork/WnmfyW Thank you. Regards, Michael

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<BGL>Filter vertices/edges by vertex/edge attributes?
by Amit Prakash Ambasta 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hi, In a boost graph, how can I filter vertices or edges by some attribute of Vertex/Edge Property? I tried taking a look at FilteredGraph, but the operator function would also need to be able to call boost::get(boost::vertex_bundle, graph_instance)[vertex] while only vertex is passed to the operator.

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Integrate Boost Server in DLL
by Jithendrakumar K 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hi, Can we use Boost ASIO async TCP Server example and integrate it into DLL, any example would be better. I want to make Boost Server up and running, when i run in DLL and i have to read values that come via LAN through Boost server in DLL for further processing I have tried as in this Tried_Solution <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33448734/how-to-integrate-boost-asio-ser…> . Please suggest if there's a way to achieve it. -- Regards, Jithendrakumar K, 8019514041.

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[BGL] k-shortest path
by Ireneusz Szcześniak 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hi, I need to find k-shortest paths, but there is no such algorithm in BGL. I can get edge-disjoint k-shortest paths with a max-flow algorithm, but I don't need the k-shortest path to be edge-disjoint -- that's too strict for me. I would appreciate it if someone could share an implementation of the Yen or Eppstein algorithms using BGL. I found some implementations on the Internet, but they don't use BGL. Thanks & best, Irek

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