Version 1.0 approaches! The STE||AR Group is proud to announce the release of HPX v0.9.99. This release is significant as HPX is nearly feature complete. Over the next several months the STE||AR Group will continue to test and polish HPX’s API and documentation. The feedback and experience gained from the community’s utilization this release will provide guidance on where to add the finishing touches for v1.0.
Articles by Adrian Lemoine
C++ Summer Lecture Series
When people struggle with HPX, we often find that their confusion and frustration is rooted in a lack of understanding of modern C++. In order to address this issue, the STE||AR Group @ LSU is hosting a 2016 C++ summer lecture series. These sessions will cover
GSoC’16: Come Enjoy a STE||AR Summer of Code!
The STE||AR Group is honored to have been selected as one of the 2016 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentor organizations! This program, which pays students over the summer to work on open source projects, has been a wonderful experience for the past two years that we have been accepted by the program. Interested students can find out more about the details of the program on GSoC’s
Spreading the Word
A core belief of the STE||AR Group is that, in order to be successful in our efforts to revolutionize computing, we must garner the support and enthusiasm of the broader community. We were pleased to learn that a software engineer in Germany, Harris Brakmic, wrote a great blog post about witting applications in HPX. One section of his post that we were very excited about was his conclusion:
GSoC 2015 Results: Success!
This summer has been an exciting time for the STE||AR Group’s GSoC mentors and students alike! We were very pleased with the dedication and effort of all five of our participants. Our students made contributions to three of our software products: HPX, a distributed C++ runtime system which comes with a standards compliant API and allows users to scale their applications across thousands of machines; LibGeoDecomp, an auto-parallizing library for petascale computer simulations which is able to take advantage of HPX to better adapt fluctuating workloads to the system; and LibFlatArray, a highly efficient multidimensional array library which provides an object-oriented interface but stores data in a vectorization-friendly Struct-of-Arrays format.
HPX Tutorial Promo Video
As a build up for our Supercomputing tutorial, the STE||AR Group has put together a promotional video to generate interest in HPX. The video gives viewer a high level overview of what HPX is and what will be discussed at the tutorial. The SC15 Tutorials Committee will circulate this and other tutorial videos on its YouTube playlist. We would like to thank our colleague Randy Dannenberg and his students for helping us put this together!
On Tour: HPX Tutorial at SC15!
Howdy! The STE||AR Group welcomes you to participate in a hands on HPX tutorial which will be given this year in Austin, Texas as part of the SC Tutorials program. STE||AR Fellows from Louisiana State University, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and University of Oregon will present “Massively Parallel Task-Based Programming wih HPX” which will consist of five parts:
HPX Archives Now on Gmane
In order to make searching and accessing the HPX mailing lists easier, we have made the hpx-users and hpx-devel archives available via Gmane. This service allows users to browse posts through the use of several formats including two web interfaces, an NINTP newsreader, and a RSS feed. These interfaces will help get questions, answers, and other detailed information about HPX out to the public in an easily consumable format. Try it out!
HPX V0.9.10 Available!
The STE||AR Group is proud to announce the release of HPX v0.9.10! In this release our team has focused on making large scale runs simple and reliable. With these changes we have currently shown the ability to run HPX applications on up to 24,000 cores! Other major features include new parcel-port (network-layer) implementations, variadic template support, more parallel algorithms, and the first distributed data structure, hpx::vector.
STE||AR Group Accepted as a GSoC 2015 Mentor Organization
The STE||AR Group is proud to announce that it has been accepted as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code 2015 (GSoC) program! This program pays students to work on open source projects for three months over the summer. While the timeline is short, the experience can leave a lasting impression. In fact, some of us met professionally through past GSoC programs. The next step in the process is for students who wish to participate to write proposals for the work that they would like to do over the summer. To get some ideas of what STE||AR projects are available, please checkout our GSoC Project Ideas page here. We encourage all interested students to contact us with their questions and project ideas at hpx-users@stellar.cct.lsu.edu. We are looking forward to a great summer of code!