-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Antony Polukhin Sent: 15 December 2014 06:58 To: boost@lists.boost.org List; boost-announce@lists.boost.org; boost- users@lists.boost.org; Kyle Lutz Subject: [boost] [compute] Review period starts today December 15, 2014, ends on December 24, 2014
Dear All,
Review of the Compute library starts today on Mon 25st of December 2014 and will last for ten days.
The Compute library provides a C++ interface to multi-core GPGPU and CPU computing platforms based on OpenCL.
Please, answer the following questions in your review:
1. What is your evaluation of the design? Un-qualified to judge.
2. What is your evaluation of the implementation? Un-qualified to judge.
(I note some worrying about floating-point - is this not over-expectation ? "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk." Integers are made by the Good Lord, all others are man's work. -- Leopold Kronecker We should never expect to get exactly the same results from hardware C++ as software GPU FP?
3. What is your evaluation of the documentation? Very good.
4. What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? Invaluable.
5. Did you try to use the library? No.
6. How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance?
7. Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain? Barely.
And finally, every review should answer this question:
8. Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library?
Yes because I think Kyle has shown the feasibility and utility of this library and has some real-life users. I trust him to maintain and develop the library in future. The C++ and GPU is fast moving, so I don't think we should be too fixated on finding the ideal solution. There will be more attempts to add GPU support to Standard C++ itself. Obviously, the more we can allow other platforms than OpenCL to be added later the better. Like Boost.Sort, I think we should use the library as a container for various tools to use GPUs. I get the impression that the existing setup does not close too many doors too firmly. So I feel it is time to let it hit the streets. Paul --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal UK LA8 8AB +44 (0) 1539 561830