Package: wnpp
Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : compute
Version : 0.4
Upstream Author : Kyle Lutz <kyle.r.l...@gmail.com>
* URL : http://kylelutz.github.io/compute/
* License : Boost software license 1.0
Programming Lang: C++
Description : cross-platform C++ library for GPU computing
Long-Description:
Boost.Compute is a GPU/parallel-computing library for C++ based on OpenCL.
.
The core library is a thin C++ wrapper over the OpenCL API and
provides access
to compute devices, contexts, command queues and memory buffers.
.
On top of the core library is a generic, STL-like interface providing
common
algorithms (e.g. transform(), accumulate(), sort()) along with common
containers (e.g. vector<T>, flat_set<T>). It also features a number of
extensions including parallel-computing algorithms (e.g. exclusive_scan(),
scatter(), reduce()) and a number of fancy iterators (e.g.
transform_iterator<>, permutation_iterator<>, zip_iterator<>).
This package is required as a build-dependency to the OpenCL backend of
ArrayFire, which CPU backend is already available in the main archive.
Boost.compute is expected to be part of release 1.59 of Boost. Having a
separate package however is desirable from a backport perspective, since
the library is header-only and compatible with Boost >= 1.48. This has
been discussed in length with the Debian Boost team, who eventually gave
the green light to package it [1].
[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-boost-devel/2015-July/003714.html
This package will be co-maintained by the Debian science team, alongside
ArrayFire and its dependencies.
Best regards,
Ghislain
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