This is my first post on the mailing list , so apologies if it doesn't follow any of the protocols.
I was looking at GSoC projects this year for Boost and I am wondering if someone is working on a high-performance radix-2 floating-point back-end for Boost.Multiprecision. If not , I would be interested in doing this project .I am currently a Masters student interning at a tech company in Seattle but I would be able to devote 15-20 hours a week for this project. I have a fairly good background in C++ and numerical programming.So in case no else is working on it (for GSoC or otherwise ) , I would be really interested . If someone is already working on it, I would be interested in some other projects I could potentially work on .
As Chris has said, the SOC applications are over now and funding allotted, if you wanted to work on something like that anyway then that would be great! I think this is something that both Chris and I have looked at somewhat - I have a toy implementation based on using cpp_int internally which only does multiplication and no rounding - maybe one day I'll get back to it... John.