VecCore utils

Wednesday 2 May 2018, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

32/S-C22 (CERN)

Andrei Gheata (CERN)

Discussing a road path towards community-shared vectorized utility packages

1 Context & objective

Introducing the problem we are trying to solve

Speaker: Andrei Gheata (CERN)

VUtils_kickstart_discussion.pdf

2 VecCore: evolution and perspectives

Describing the vision on how the library should evolve and alignment with with C++ standard trends.

Speaker: Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

VecCore.pdf

3 ROOT: evolution of vectorized math

The ROOT vision&plans for how vectorized math should evolve

Speaker: Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

ROOT_Vectorization_Plans.pdf

Discussion

• structure (one library or more, scalar & vector support)
• content: containers/types, math (basic/advanced), utils (rng, ...), general algorithms (basic or more advanced)
• granularity, coherence, maintenance
• action items