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Subject: Re: [ublas] SSE support
From: Kraus Philipp (philipp.kraus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-24 06:32:01


Am 24.03.2011 um 11:14 schrieb David Bellot:

> not for the moment.
> In fact, there is a GSoC project for porting part of NT2 to Boost.
> It will be something like Boost::SIMD I think.
> So I think that would be better to integrate this future library
> into ublas rather than having our own implementation.
> The reason is that those guys at NT2 already have a rock-solid
> vector implementations running on multiple architectures (SSE,
> Altivec, Cell processor and I think ARM). So the benefit would be
> immediate for us.
>
> However, I you plan to do something with OpenMP, that would be
> great. Eigen has it (or some sort of multi-core capabilities).
> We need that too. I would start by looking at the GNU parallel STL
> implementation to have an idea.

Thanks for the great answer. I use MPI support for my algorithms, but
for the non-mpi parts I would like to use SSE support, but I don't
need it at the moment.

Phil