This week, through the efforts of our STE||AR graduate student Alireza, we have added an IRC logger to our #ste||ar and #ste||ar-dev channels. This logger will make all conversations on these channels searchable, link-able, and publicly available through a Continue reading
We can now announce the participants in the STE||AR Group’s 2017 Google Summer of Code! We are very proud to announce the names of those 6 students who this year will be funded by Google to work on projects for our group.
These recipients represent only a handful of the many excellent proposals that we had to choose from. For those unfamiliar with the program, the Google Summer of Code brings together ambitious students from around the world with open source developers by giving each mentoring organization funds to hire a set number of participants. Students then write proposals, which they submit to a mentoring organization, in hopes of having their work funded. Continue reading
This past week members of the HPX team were invited to give a talk on Jon Kalb’s weekly CppChat. Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach, Hartmut Kaiser, Thomas Heller, and John Biddiscombe were invited onto the show to talk about HPX, our programming model, Continue reading
After nine years of development HPX version 1.0.0 is being prepared to ship! The STE||AR Group is exited to share this news, and therefore, has prepared a release Continue reading
The STE||AR Group is honored to have been selected as one of the 2017 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentor organizations! This program, which pays students over the summer to work on open source projects, has been a wonderful experience for the past three years that we have been accepted by the program. Interested students can find out more about the details of the program on GSoC’s Continue reading
This summer the STE||AR Group was proud to mentor four students through Google’s Summer of Code program. These students worked on a variety of projects which helped improve our software, HPX. This Library is a distributed C++ runtime system which Continue reading
Gauging the interest in an open source project is often very difficult. People can be downloading and using your software without any developers being aware. Additionally, many projects may not have users in a direct sense but do provide other library and application Continue reading
Version 1.0 approaches! The STE||AR Group is proud to announce the release of HPX v0.9.99. This release is significant as HPX is nearly feature complete. Over the next several months the STE||AR Group will continue to test and polish HPX’s API and documentation. The feedback and experience gained from the community’s utilization this release will provide guidance on where to add the finishing touches for v1.0. Continue reading
When people struggle with HPX, we often find that their confusion and frustration is rooted in a lack of understanding of modern C++. In order to address this issue, the STE||AR Group is hosting a 2016 C++ summer lecture series. These sessions will Continue reading
The STE||AR Group is honored to have been selected as one of the 2016 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentor organizations! This program, which pays students over the summer to work on open source projects, has been a wonderful experience for Continue reading