Subject: Re: [geometry] Greetings
From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-30 17:01:33
Hi Nikos,
Op 30-7-2015 om 22:08 schreef Îικόλαος Αθανασίου:
> Hi Adam,
>
> working on other parts of the library as well would be great but for
> now I need to focus on the R-Tree (time constraints prohibit doing
> otherwise). I believe beginning with bug fixes and studying is the way
> to learn. Once I acquire sufficient knowledge of the library (~month
> considering that summer holidays are upon us) I'd like to work on
> balancing/packing algorithms. Also serialization and support for
> external memory algorithms is an interesting topic, but I believe I'll
> have a better insight only after the ~month learning period.
> As for things related to my thesis, if there's a plan to incorporate
> GPU computing to the library (especially now that "boost.compute"
> seems to be able to make it into boost) I'd be happy to work on
> implementations and propose algorithms there as well; I attached a
> small presentation-survey project (skip to section 4, the initial part
> is just introduction to RTrees) where you can see areas of application
> for GPUs and references to some papers on the topic.
> I'll be expecting guideliness on how to work on bug fixes (or
> priorities therein - hopefully sorted by ascending difficulty :P )
>
Welcome, and thanks for your document!
Regards, Barend