Welcome to Blip
Blip is moving to http://fawzi.github.com/blip these pages will disappear
a library that focuses on basic things that can be useful for scientific HPC programs. It offers:
- N-dimensional arrays (blip.narray) that have a nice interface to lapack (that leverages the wrappers of baxissimo)
- 2,3 and 4D vectors, matrixes and quaternions from the omg library of h3r3tic
- random and combinatorial(extensive) testing framework (blip.rtest), parallel
- serialization (blip.serialization) that supports both json format, that can be used also for input files and an efficient binary representation
- SMP parallelization (blip.parallel.smp) a numa aware very flexible framework
- MPI parallelization built on the top of mpi, but abstracting it away (so that a pure tcp implementation is possible), for tightly coupled parallelization
- a Distribued Objects framework that does rpc via proxies (blip.parallel.rpc)
- a simple socket library that can be used to connect external programs, even if written in fortran or C (for a weak parallel coupling)
- a coherent and efficient io abstraction
The source is available at github
- browse: http://github.com/fawzi/blip
- install: git clone git://github.com/fawzi/blip.git (see GettingStarted for the details)
- requires either the latest trunk of tango or a special version (until next release)
News
- 2010-11-17 announcing blip 0.5
- 2010-10-22 smp parallelization interface has stabilized
- 2010-10-22 native (non tango based) input handling is used for sockets, output is pretty much stable.
- 2010-10-22 libev is used for socket io and sleep
- 2010-10-22 ip6 socket implementation is available on *nix
- 2010-10-22 rpc parallelization is also working
Starting Points
- AboutBlip -- some background on the library
- GettingStarted -- how to start using the library
- BlipOverview -- an overview of the main features of blip
- ParallelizationConcepts --the concepts behind the parallelization of blip
- NArrayPerformace -- indexing and looping performance with 3D arrays
- A talk about the random testing framework that is part of blip http://petermodzelewski.blogspot.com/2009/02/tango-conference-2008-rolling-dice.html
- HowToD, how to set up a D environment on linux x86_64
- LicenseContributing -- license of blip, and how to contribute to it
For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.