Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:31:11 +0200 From: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> To: Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, kargl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <p9u0r0ctl9zk.fsf@coriandre.loria.fr> In-Reply-To: <ZnHEVbKEh8gF-Aje@fuz.su> (message from Robert Clausecker on Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:31:01 %2B0200) References: <ZnHEVbKEh8gF-Aje@fuz.su>
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Hi Robert,
she might be interested to contribute to CORE-MATH
(https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/). This is
not part of FreeBSD, but FreeBSD might incorporate
routines from CORE-MATH (which are under MIT license).
Best regards,
Paul Zimmermann
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:31:01 +0200
> From: Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org>
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> Greetings,
>
> I have here a talented maths student looking for a place to
> complete her mandatory (unpaid) industry internship.
>
> She has a knack for numerical analysis, differential equations,
> and writing floating point code. I suggested that there might
> be need for some improvement to the math code currently shipped
> with FreeBSD as the old msun code, while very precise, is not
> writted to take advantage of modern SIMD FPUs with FMA support
> and could be improved considerably.
>
> Is there an interest for such or other numerical work on the
> FreeBSD code base? Would anybody be interested in supervising
> such work? If yes, I would try to connect the two of you.
>
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
>
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