Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:27:00 -0500 From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> To: Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, kargl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <06f93359-b284-494c-b8b1-dc3dba1e1264@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ZnHEVbKEh8gF-Aje@fuz.su> References: <ZnHEVbKEh8gF-Aje@fuz.su>
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On 6/18/24 12:31, Robert Clausecker wrote: > 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 > Coincidentally, I just came across a recent benchmark that might provide some hints about where to focus the efforts: https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x -- Life is a game. Play hard. Play fair. Have fun.
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