Illinois CS is hiring this year - with numerous open tenure track positions in ALL areas. Apply now!

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It appears that I was wrong. I no longer believe that Intel's CPU OpenCL runtime is open-source software. The "build instructions" point back to the binary release to download the runtime. 😡😩 https://bit.ly/2kky2mO

Open source in academia, or really anywhere: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.” - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

Good advice from Denis Bakhvalov: How to get consistent results when benchmarking on Linux - https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/08/02/Perf-measurement-environment-on-Linux #linux #hpc #benchmarking

Want to learn things like this? Look for the next edition of my HPC abstractions class: https://bit.ly/hpcabstr-f18

This Thursday (Aug 1), Matt Wala successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations Matt! 🎉 🎓 📖 #uiuc #scicomp #numpde #qbx

It looks like the Intel CPU #OpenCL implementation / ICD is (a) not dead (b) now open source https://github.com/intel/llvm/releases/tag/oclcpuexp-2019.8.7.0.0725_rel 😀🎉

New paper submitted (actually a while ago): A Fast Algorithm with Error Bounds for Quadrature by Expansion - https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04070. We call it #gigaqbx #qbx #fmm #numpde #scicomp