OpenDreamKit implication
OpenDreamKit participants: C. Pernet, J.-G. Dumas, H. Zhu.
OpenDreamKit provided the main funding source for the workshop (accommodation, subsistence and travel expenses), for about 2.6k Euro.
Event summary
The Grignan LinBox developer meeting took place in Grignan (France), from June 20th to 22nd.
There were 9 participants from 3 different institutions (UGA, Université Montpellier 2, US Naval Academy). No registration fees were applied.
After a round table brainstorming on development projects for the meeting, developers gathered in groups each addressing a given project. The main achievements of the meeting include
- Progress on the distributed parallel ration solver (\delivref{hpc}{LinBox-distributed});
- Design and refactorization of the code for randomized algorithms in LinBox;
- Completion of the rewrite of the prime fields in Givaro;
- Improvement of code robustness and release preparation (\delivref{hpc}{LinBox-algo}).
Results and impact
The workshop was very productive and particularly beneficial to WP5 (\delivref{hpc}{LinBox-algo}).