From: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
Subject: Numerical software in Ada (was: Re: Can Ada be hacked?)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 07:01:22 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2011-03-01T07:01:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iki5k2$5th$1@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ikhkr6$hkm$1@speranza.aioe.org
In article <ikhkr6$hkm$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> wrote:
[...]
>Ada, the language is good for computational sciences and
>heavy algorithmic type applications, and there is a strong
>need for more and more of these applications.
[...]
>An open source project in Ada in such a field, would be
>to develop packages for numerical solution of PDE's, packages
>for finite elements, packages for mesh generations, etc...
[...]
>These things take years to do, as numerical software
>is hard, and a correct and optimized one is even harder
>to make.
For an example of numerical software in Ada, which indeed took years
to do, see <http://www.math.uic.edu/~jan/PHCpack/phcpack.html>, by
Jan Verschelde about "PHCpack: a general-purpose solver for polynomial
systems by homotopy continuation".
The software can be downloaded from the same address.
HTH
Dirk
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2011-03-01 1:44 Can Ada be hacked? Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-01 2:15 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-01 7:01 ` Dirk Craeynest [this message]
2011-03-18 8:19 ` Numerical software in Ada Simon Wright
2011-03-01 7:41 ` Can Ada be hacked? Shark8
2011-03-01 9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-01 8:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-07 4:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-09 9:10 ` Lucretia
2011-03-09 9:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01 11:17 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 11:39 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-01 12:00 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 15:06 ` Shark8
2011-03-01 15:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-02 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 12:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-01 15:40 ` Julian Leyh
2011-03-01 18:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-01 18:13 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 23:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-04 18:15 ` Tero Koskinen
2011-03-04 20:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-05 1:14 ` Shark8
2011-03-07 4:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-02 0:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 19:53 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 4:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 11:57 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 13:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 18:05 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 18:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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