Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : exscalibar Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Gavin Wood <emmcee at users.sourceforge.net> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/exscalibar/ * License : GPL Description : extendable, scalable architecture for audio-signal refinement This package is needed to enable amarok's "moodbar". I haven't really looked at this yet, but here's what the docs say: Exscalibar is an acronym for EXtendable SCalable Architecture for Live, Interactive and Batch Audio-signal information-Retrieval. The Exscalibar project is an umbrella project to design and implement software to facilitate experiments into audio feature extraction techniques specifically for the purpose of music information retrieval. These software components are: - QtExtra A utility class library that provides a simple and usable interface to functionality such as network session management (including addressing the problem of big/little endian communication), dynamic code loading (plug-in management) and memory management issues that arise with class-based threading. - Geddei The core software library that provides the infrastructure to allow the processing to happen. This looks after such aspects as defining the ``front-end'' abstract interfaces for processing modules and implementing all necessary communication between the different threads and processes. Geddei addresses such aspects of communication as type-correctness and type-derivation, aspects of parallelism such as synchronisation and process-control, and abstracts where necessary to provide different levels of parallelism (such as multithreading and network-based distribution). - Common Processor Libraries The CPL provide a collection of ``building blocks'' with which desired computations may be expressed. Several libraries exist, each addressing some application of computation; currently we have libraries featuring modules in mathematics and music IR. We also have a toolkit library for analysing and probing a network from a program. We also have a library (in the experimental phase) that allows usage of components of another audio-signal processing software library. - Remote Geddei (rGeddei) This extra software library that sits atop Geddei provides the necessary functionality to control a Geddei ``session'' on a different memory area or host. This is important (and generally necessary) when Geddei is to be scaled up to use multiple hosts (or nodes) in order to carry out some computation. rGeddei abstracts away from the concrete instantiations of Geddei objects to provide a create-and-control interface that is location transparent from the programmer's point of view. - NodeServer This software works with rGeddei to allow it use of a particular host (or node). It is able to listen to and act on requests directing it to create or otherwise control a Geddei ``session''. It provides a basic authentication mechanism in order to address security issues. - NodeController This software is able to control a single Geddei-based distributed experiment, unaided, potentially in a batch configuration. It is able to submit Grid jobs to establish a number of hosts running the NodeServer software and then to utilise them to complete a given job. It is conceivable that this particular piece of software could be adapted to become a Web Service. - Network Investigation Toolkit Environment NITE is a graphical application for designing Geddei-based dataflows and expressing a particular computation. It is designed to be a Rapid Application Development environment employing all modern aspects of a GUI including drag-and-drop and physical modelling of components. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc6 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
