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Boost.Compute v0.1 Released
by Kyle Lutz 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

I'm proud to announce the initial release (version 0.1) of Boost.Compute! It is available on GitHub [1] and instructions for using the library can be found in the documentation [2]. Boost.Compute is a GPGPU and parallel-programming library based on OpenCL. It provides an STL-like API and implements many common containers (e.g. vector<T>, array<T, N>) as well as many common algorithms (e.g. sort(), accumulate(), transform()). A full list can be found in the header reference [3]. I hope to propose Boost.Compute for review in the next few months but for I'm looking for more wide-spread testing and feedback from the Boost community (please note the FAQ [4] and design rationale [5] where I hope to have answered some common questions). Thanks, Kyle [1] https://github.com/kylelutz/compute [2] http://kylelutz.github.io/compute/ [3] http://kylelutz.github.io/compute/compute/reference.html [4] http://kylelutz.github.io/compute/boost_compute/faq.html [5] http://kylelutz.github.io/compute/boost_compute/design.html

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[math] Extensive warnings when compiling with clang
by Brian Ravnsgaard Riis 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I realise these are not that serious, just annoying. See example below. I'm building with clang++, modified to default in C++11 mode. /Brian Riis clang-linux.compile.c++.with-pch bin.v2/libs/math/build/clang-linux-3.4/release/link-static/threading-multi/fminf.o In file included from <built-in>:168: In file included from <command line>:4: In file included from /home/brian/programming/boost/libs/math/build/../src/tr1/pch.hpp:9: In file included from ./boost/math/special_functions.hpp:15: In file included from ./boost/math/special_functions/airy.hpp:10: In file included from ./boost/math/special_functions/bessel.hpp:18: In file included from ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/bessel_jy.hpp:14: In file included from ./boost/math/special_functions/gamma.hpp:28: In file included from ./boost/math/special_functions/lanczos.hpp:1288: ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:54:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d vx = _mm_load1_pd(&x); ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:55:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d sum_even = _mm_load_pd(coeff); ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:56:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d sum_odd = _mm_load_pd(coeff+2); ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:57:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d nc_odd, nc_even; ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:57:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d nc_odd, nc_even; ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:58:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d vx2 = _mm_mul_pd(vx, vx); ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:139:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d vx = _mm_load1_pd(&x); ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:140:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d sum_even = _mm_load_pd(coeff); ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:141:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d sum_odd = _mm_load_pd(coeff+2); ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:142:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d nc_odd, nc_even; ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:142:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d nc_odd, nc_even; ^~~~~~~~~ ./boost/math/special_functions/detail/lanczos_sse2.hpp:143:4: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-register] register __m128d vx2 = _mm_mul_pd(vx, vx); ^~~~~~~~~ 12 warnings generated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTKAqhAAoJEFES4N8QrEodTJ4H/1Hl2vyJ/Ki7JCK+YZsgwLvr MztU3H4IFfaUf4+EXPjnJbhu5f19Fhupn7RH6PLIJElUBYQGvKSEp2DRNddalrDK vKZVxGe25pDAD1HOsPRKH+74xXqSfeAAbYi/PvwusXLwhS2kYH+k6KzdXn6POsEe PrdweMusGLp9TH36DYNM59+SU16oGPdOj53acZSG06ftG8+1FcFXtb2jTMZY7fZX l/3gUBkQ7kl7ZkAoezNNlKcb/r+dIXNfb2oaV7TwSUGD+7ioQvvsSFjr2ytl3cb8 q01hLY4ih2mjMkrvCfflbAwGXH6noyEm/ySmjAxxekyCyP4na/W648+hAhnlimg= =vvz8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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GSoC '14 - Boost.Compute
by Roshan 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hey, I wish to propose a project regarding Boost.Compute. I would love to hear your views on it. Here is a link to my proposal: Dropbox Link <https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkpdomvoxpzisg7/GSoC.pdf> Thanks. -- Warm regards Roshan

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GSoC Boost/Monads
by Дмитрий Карпов 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hello! My name is Dmitry. I have submitted my prorposal in GSoC. But I'd like change it little bit. What is your expectation from this project? I'd like: - to implement common monad's interface: - functions for async and futures (then(), is_ready and I hope I will have enough time to implement some others) - make some experiment with Either and Maybe monads to implement fmap() for smart pointers and containers Should I keep in my mind some other tasks? Can you advise something about State monad? What should be it used for, input/output or, maybe, for secure operation with implicit type conversion or for something else? This is link to my proposal: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/… -- Best regards, Dmitry Karpov Cell phone: +7 905 271 94 14

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[Boost.Functional][GSoC] Boost.Functional / Monad project proposal
by Benjamin, John C. (MU-Student) 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Name: John Benjamin College/University?: University of Missouri - Columbia Course/Major?: Computer Science Degree Program (B.Sc., M, Sc., PhD, etc.) M.S. Email: jcb638(a)mail.missouri.edu Homepage: github.com/jchbenjamin Availability: How much time do you plan to spend on your GSoC? 30-40 hours per week What are your intended start and end dates? May 16 - August 19 What other factors affect your availability (exams, courses, moving, work, etc.)? I will be doing 3 credit hours of research Background Information I am a master's student in computer science. I've been hacking and programming computers since I was in Junior High. Please summarize your educational background (degrees earned, courses taken, etc.). I have a B.S. in economics from the University of Kansas. Between Spring 2012 and Spring 2013 I did post-baccalaureate study in Computer Science. I have the equivalent coursework for an undergraduate major in Computer Science. Please summarize your programming background (OSS projects, internships, jobs, etc.). I work for a lab associated with the government on campus where we perform remote sensing work across large sets of satellite data. The focus is on high-performance computing and database design. There is a large SVN repository of C++ code for which I am a regular contributor. Please tell us a little about your programming interests. Please tell us why you are interested in contributing to the Boost C++ Libraries. I am interested in Boost because I have been working with Boost for my work and for many classes. Boost has always been the most satisfying library. It is general purpose, always fast, and really attuned to the needs of the programmer. It is an amazing blend of practical use, solid theory, and good engineering. It would be a huge honor to be able to work with this project. What is your interest in the project you are proposing? I am interested in helping to implement a common monad framework for Boost. Have you done any previous work in this area before or on similar projects? I have worked with Haskell for a year with Prof. William Harrison at my school. Last summer I did research with Haskell and wrote a nifty little program that uses a state monad. What are your plans beyond this Summer of Code time frame for your proposed work?. I hope to continue contributing with this work and to help foster awareness and use of monads. I think that Haskell is on to something with some of its language features. Features like lambdas are already becoming part of the new way of structuring programs. I think monads are a powerful way to reason about and understand the properties of a program. But I don't think a full-blown functional language is practical or necessary for most problems. When typical programmers see that Monads can fit into a language used in industry and that builds on what they already know and expect of the behavior of a language they will be more open to thinking about higher level structural concepts from Category Theory. Please rate, from 0 to 5 (0 being no experience, 5 being expert), your knowledge of the following languages, technologies, or tools: C++ :: 4 C++ Standard Library :: 4 Boost C++ Libraries :: 3 Subversion :: 3 What software development environments are you most familiar with (Visual Studio, Eclipse, KDevelop, etc.)? Eclipse, gnu autotools What software documentation tool are you most familiar with (Doxygen, DocBook, Quickbook, etc.)? Doxygen Project Proposal The proposal is not too creative, just what is described in Boost.Functional / Monads Please provide a description of your proposed work. I will work to make sure the Monad implementation meets the actual description of a monad. One thing I think is important is to be able to have recursive monads that are efficient. The IO monad for example is particularly amenable to recursive structures that allow for easy sanitation of input and output. Proposed Milestones and Schedule Rough draft of milestones and schedules: May 19 - June 2 : review Monads and Category Theory. Understand the current state of Boost.Functional / Monad. Read through Pure and discuss how our implementation is different. June 2 - June 30 : Propose, discuss, and finalize working prototype which implements all the required existing instances of monads and meets syntactic conventions. Begin coding July 1 - July 21 : Implement finalized proposal and prepare for testing July 21- end of summer : test and document my work Please provide any feedback. If you need more information or a more specific proposal please let me know. John Benjamin?

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GSoC 2014 proposal for Boost.Chrono/Date
by Arun Sori 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hey all, I am interested in the Boost.Chrono/Date project for this year's GSoC. I've made a proposal here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jzqAuVh_GZL2TihIlMlG6qX6IfMfOrRw1hOfUre…>, with some good help from the project's mentor. It's open for reviews. Please have a look and point out any mistakes,typos or anything else I am missing. Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks, Arun

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[GSoC 2014] Http Server Proposal
by Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hi guys, I'm interested in develop an asynchronous HTTP server for Boost as part of GSoC. The design would be inspired from Node.js without the facilities or inspirations that were created to overcome JavaScript quirks and limitations. The library would be modular to the point where you can use only small parts of it and you could also replace components that you don't like. The library should have a small overhead to be used on embedded projects, but the modular design will allow you to use higher abstractions when such concerns don't exist. Of course it's difficult to find the "right" answer to the problem, then I'll limit the higher-abstractions to "proven" techniques and avoid controversial features. I hope to give more details in the middle of the next week. The library will not be about writing template-driven web pages, but it will be about HTTP and you will be able to do things like video live stream via HTTP (try to do that with Django or PHP). I also intend to allow a efficient use in multithreaded environment with high-load of data (although network applications are usually I/O bound and not CPU bound). Of course it'll be possible to use WebSocket with this library too. Another thing I want to allow is to mock HTTP requests and transparently replace parts of the stack without affecting already written code. The purpose of this feature is to allow other transport mechanism such as FastCGI and also provide a future-proof approach by better allowing HTTP/2.0 when released. I would implement such library on top of Boost ASIO and I'd include facilities that I'm sure would work on long-term. Because the success of such project is very sensible to the chosen design, I'd limit its scope to things that I know it will work long-term. If the implementation project end up being too small, I can also implement WebSocket support (I had implemented it before and it wouldn't be such challenge for me), where the implementation effort is higher than the interface effort. I'm not sure about the deliverables (yet!), but I hope to give more details soon, once I have written nice texts. I'm particularly interested in an elegant way to represent some data structures, but I'll detail the plans soon (lots of text to write, ideas to explain and references to convince, among other). The text was a bit long, but it's because I already have something in mind. I hope to deliver a proposal explaining all the design, why I think it would work and other matters in the middle of the next week. I'm also open to suggestions and modifications in the not-yet-presented-proposal. I can provide background about my experiences later, but for now I want to know what do you guys think about the idea. TL;DR: For now I want to know what do you guys think about having a core HTTP server library in Boost. -- Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira https://about.me/vinipsmaker

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Library metadata
by Daniel James 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hi, I'm starting to add metadata to modules for updating the website, and hopefully other uses in the future. I added the metadata to Boost.Unordered and Boost.Functional to give you an idea of what this will look like: https://github.com/boostorg/functional/tree/develop/meta https://github.com/boostorg/unordered/tree/develop/meta You can see several libraries listed in the Boost.Functional file. I'll write some documentation soon, but it should be fairly easy to understand. I basically took what was in the website library list and split it up into modules. Quick summary of the fields: key - Used to be the website to identify each library. Don't change it, or the website will think it's a new library. boost-version - The version in which the library was released. name - The name of the library. authors - The authors of the library - will probably add a 'maintainers' field later. description - Library description - this is used in the library list, so keep it short. std-proposal - Is the library proposed for the standard. std-tr1 - Is the library part of TR1. category - The categories the library belongs to. one element for each category. The documentation will include a list of available categories. documentation - Path to the documentation. The documentation field is optional. If it isn't included, it'll use the default path: /libs/module-name/. If it is included, relative paths are resolved relative to the module directory, absolute paths from boost root - although I'd suggest you always use a path within the module, and if there's only a single library in a module, use the default path. This isn't the final format - I think the standards status fields could do with an overhaul to support C++11 etc. You also don't need to write the initial files yourself, I'll generate them and create pull requests once this is settled. Let me know what you think. thanks, Daniel

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Submitting Proposal
by Pulkit Mendiratta 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hello! I am not able to find a link to submit my proposal. After logging in to google-melange, and requesting a role from boost community, i am not able to find a link to submit it. -- Cheers, Pulkit Mendiratta

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Possible problem in boost::enable_if_c or MSVC 11
by Emil Dotchevski 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

I've noticed that for some reason some of the tests of the QVM library (which is in the queue for Boost review) are failing on MSVC 11. The tests that fail use boost::enable_if_c. Before I investigate further, I'm wondering if anyone else has had problems with enable_if_c and MSVC 11 (this code works with earlier versions of MSVC and with GCC.) Thanks, Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode

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