higher library support for Yeppp and industry usage

[Michael Shamberger]

Hi,

Was interested in knowing what the plans are for higher library support for Yeppp or if it has been built into any other products.

I think I remember seeing somewhere it was being used by the cern data department?

Mike

[Marat Dukhan]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your interest.

Could you please clarify what you mean by "higher library support"? Do you mean commercial support?

I have little information about projects which use Yeppp! Most users never contact me, and I do not gather information about users beyond website analytics and download counts. Here are some open-source projects using Yeppp! I am aware of:

• VVVV.Audio Library
• Object-Oriented Audio Library
• Redshift (Natural language processing tool)
• Ruby-Yeppp (Ruby bindings for Yeppp)

I heard from several sources that Yeppp! is used at CERN. However, no one from CERN contacted me about it, so I can't say for sure.

Regards,

Marat

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[Michael Shamberger]

Hi,

I was meaning compilation support into toolkits such as numpy, scipy, R similar to what can be done with mkl.  I recently built those with mkl support and had to add 900MB of shared libaries into my VM's.  I know that yeppp covers a subset of what MKL has but I was wondering about the feasibility of a hybrid.

I am building a distributed HPC platform  (https://www.github.com/science-automation, http://www.scivm.com) and am looking for ways to get VM size lower + avoiding licensing issues while not losing performance.

I noticed that you were are a PHD student at Georgia tech working with HPC garage.  I just started at the online Masters in Computer Science.

Mike

[Marat Dukhan]

I am aware about the interest in integrating Yeppp! into Julia (see discussion here) and numexpr (see this issue). Additionally, I plan to add Yeppp! function declarations for Cython soon. The repository also includes a sample of R bindings (see here), albeit they are far from production quality. I do not have information about native (i.e. not via bindings) Yeppp! support in numpy, scipy, numba, or R, so it could be better to ask in those communities.

However, I don't think that Yeppp! could be a replacement for MKL. First, MKL has a lot more functionality (BLAS, FFT, numerical optimization) while Yeppp! currently focuses on vector operations. Secondly, MKL tries to be compatible with other popular interfaces (e.g. BLAS for Linear Algebra operations and FFTW for FFT) while Yeppp! uses its own naming conventions and interfaces for all modules.

I will be TAing CSE 6230 class (High-Performance Computing: Tools and Applications) for the online Masters in the Fall. Hope to see you there!

Regards,

Marat

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[Michael Shamberger]

Hi,

Thanks for the information.    My major is HPC so I will be seeing you in fall.

Mike