Over the weekend we celebrated the month-iversary of ArrayFire going open source. A month later, we’re still pumped about this move, and the response from the parallel computing community has been tremendous. We thought we’d share some of our favorite ArrayFire buzz from the last month.
On the day of the release, we watched as the ArrayFire open source release steadily climbed up Hacker News, eventually landing the number three spot! Admittedly, it’s hard to compete with a comet landing.
With eager eyes, we followed the rise of our GitHub repository’s star count to an incredible 860 stars.
We received shout-outs from several major blogs including Phoronix, insideHPC, and HPCWire. In the AMD Developer Blog, Brent Hollingsworth wrote
“On the AMD side, we have been very impressed with the project. I geeked out on their automation. It is pretty awesome – the flexibility they provide. They have a public Jenkins infrastructure for automated build & test, which is impressive!”
-Kent Knox, CLMath technical lead at AMD when he took an early look
The parallel community tweeted as news of the release spread across the globe:
ArrayFire is now open source! I have to test this baby with my galaxy kinematic modelling software… #arrayfire — Bekos (@Bek0s) November 29, 2014
Arrayfire！が！Opensourceになった！(しかもBSDライセンス）乗るしかないこのビックウェーブに！ http://t.co/6HVr85zYWN — Masaki Saito (@rezoolab) November 13, 2014
(Translation: ArrayFire is open source! No choice but to ride this big wave!)
@walkingrandomly Ooh, Fortran wrapper: https://t.co/GgEaq79liq — arclight (@arclight) November 13, 2014
Happy to see ArrayFire CUDA lib https://t.co/DCuBpBusth going open source. I had some fun with it for a comp.arch class project. — btbytes (@btbytes) November 12, 2014
Thanks for joining us on the ride, everyone. Share the excitement of open-sourced ArrayFire with your friends and colleagues (it makes a nice, free holiday gift!). We look forward to many more exciting developments and wish you the best as you wrap up 2014!
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It was a great move, no question about it.
But why did you remove many of the features in the previous versions?
Moreover, why did you stop updating on Google+?
We had a lot of legacy code that we are refactoring and cleaning up before pushing to the open source repositories. The biggest set of functionality that is missing is Linear Algebra. This is because ArrayFire 2.1 depended on other closed source libraries that we can not use when we are open source. We’ll be looking into adding similar functionality as time goes on. There are a couple of other functions that are missing, but they should be implemented soon. Is there anything in particular you are missing?