Hi, After having used S+ in commercial setting and then R in non-commerical (but still supporting my commercial interests), I would like to give back, if possible. Where I can contribute: 1. SCAN / PREVENT Stability and Threat analysis (big open source presence supported by coverity) 2. Intel Threaded Building Blocks library support to leverage multicore CPUs (plan now for 8-way) 3. VTune analysis/cache optimization for identification of loop unrolls, etc. All this would be on linux (Fed8 at present), except I do have an Intel compiler on Win if it was needed, would need to find fortran compiler, make lots of adjustments, I suspect. I've already started on #3 and would only take on #1 if someone in the R project blessed, because David Miller at coverity likes to support the broader projects over lone-cowboy stuff. P.S. What an easy build, as far as open src goes, your build person deserves credit. I'm currently setting up to compare gcc to intel compiler on the R base and rerunning the timing benchmarks. Thanks. M Jacobson http://www.ihaveyoga.com ph. 415.515.3333 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and
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2 messages · m jacobson, Duncan Murdoch
On 20/03/2008 7:03 AM, m jacobson wrote:
Hi, After having used S+ in commercial setting and then R in non-commerical (but still supporting my commercial interests), I would like to give back, if possible. Where I can contribute: 1. SCAN / PREVENT Stability and Threat analysis (big open source presence supported by coverity) 2. Intel Threaded Building Blocks library support to leverage multicore CPUs (plan now for 8-way) 3. VTune analysis/cache optimization for identification of loop unrolls, etc. All this would be on linux (Fed8 at present), except I do have an Intel compiler on Win if it was needed, would need to find fortran compiler, make lots of adjustments, I suspect. I've already started on #3 and would only take on #1 if someone in the R project blessed, because David Miller at coverity likes to support the broader projects over lone-cowboy stuff.
You didn't mention this, but putting together (and maintaining) a tool chain for 64 bit Windows builds would be appreciated.
P.S. What an easy build, as far as open src goes, your build person deserves credit. I'm currently setting up to compare gcc to intel compiler on the R base and rerunning the timing benchmarks.
That's largely due to Brian Ripley's efforts, but there are many other contributors to it. Duncan Murdoch