The STE||AR Group is proud to announce the release of HPX 1.6.0! HPX is an implementation of the C++ standard library for parallelism and concurrency on an efficient user-level threading runtime, with extensions for distributed computing.

This release continues the focus on C++20 conformance with multiple new algorithms adapted to be C++20 conformant and becoming customization point objects (CPOs). We have added experimental support for HIP, allowing existing CUDA features to now be compiled with hipcc and run on AMD GPUs as well. We have also continued improving the performance of the parallel executors, and added an experimental fork-join executor. The full list of improvements, fixes, and breaking changes can be found in the release notes.

Thank you to everyone in the STE||AR Group and all the volunteers who have provided fixes, opened issues, and improved the documentation.

Download the release from our releases page.

If you have any questions, comments, or exploits to report you can reach us on IRC (#ste||ar on freenode), on the matrix hpx channel, or email us at hpx-users. We depend on your input!

This year Google is organizing for the first time Google Season of Docs (GSoD). Like Google Summer of Code (GSoC) the program aims to match motivated people with interesting open source projects that are looking for volunteer contributions. GSoD, however, aims to improve open source project documentation, which often tends to get less attention than the code itself. We recognize this all too well in the HPX project. For this reason, we decided to apply for GSoD and can now proudly announce that HPX has been selected as one of 50 projects participating in this year’s GSoD!

This means that we are now looking for motivated people to help us improve our documentation. If you have some prior experience with technical writing, and are interested in working together with us on making the documentation of a cutting edge open source C++ library the best possible guide for new and experienced users, this is your chance. You can read more about the program on the official GSoD home page. We’ve provided a few project ideas on our wiki, but you can also come up with your own. Our current documentation can be found here.

The deadline for technical writer applications is June 28. Come talk to us about your ideas and your application on our mailing list, IRC, or Slack. We’d love to hear from you!