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May 29, 2024

HPX 1.10.0 Released

We have released HPX 1.10.0 -- a major update to our C++ Standard Library for Concurrency and Parallelism. We have continued to modernize HPX to fully conform to the latest standardization efforts in the are of parallelism and concurrency. Our HPX documentation has seen a major overhaul for this release,…

May 10, 2024

GSoC 2024 Contributors Announced!

We are very proud to announce the names of the 5 contributors this year who will be funded by Google to work on projects for our group through Google’s Summer of Code 2024! These contributors represent the very best of the many excellent proposals that we had to choose from.…

Aug 6, 2023

HPX 1.9.1 Released

We have released HPX 1.9.1 that adds a number of small new features and fixes a handful of problems discovered since the last 1.9.0 release. In particular: we fixed various occasional hanging during startup and shutdown in distributed scenarios. We also added support for zero-copy serialization on the receiving side…

May 7, 2023

HPX 1.9.0 Released

We have released HPX 1.9.0 -- a major update to our C++ Standard Library for Concurrency and Parallelism. The HPX parallel algorithms now have been fully adapted to C++23, all existing facilities have been adjusted to conform to this version of the Standard as well. We now can proudly announce…

Aug 7, 2022

HPX 1.8.1 Released

We have released HPX 1.8.1 that adds a number of small new features and fixes a handful of problems discovered since the last 1.8.0 release, in particular: a lot of work has been done to improve vectorization support for our parallel algorithms. HPX now supports using EVE - the Expressive…

May 25, 2022

GSoC 2022 Participants Announced!

It is time to announce the participants for in the STE||AR Group’s 2022 Google Summer of Code! We are very proud to announce the names of the 5 contributors this year who will be funded by Google to work on projects for our group. These recipients represent the very best…

May 25, 2022

HPX 1.8.0 released

We have released HPX 1.8.0 -- a major update to our C++ Standard Library for Concurrency and Parallelism. The HPX parallel algorithms now have been fully adapted to C++20, all existing facilities have been adjusted to conform to this version of the Standard as well. We now can proudly announce…

May 16, 2022

GSoD 2022 – STE||AR Group announces technical writer hire!

Documentation is a love letter that your write to your future self.Damian Conway We are proud to welcome Bhumit Attarde to STE||AR Group as the new technical writer that will work with us during this year's Google Season of Docs period. Bhumit will focus on developing additional content for our…

Apr 21, 2022

GSoD 2022

STE||AR Group was accepted for Google Season of Docs 2022! We look forward to developing our HPX documentation even more and expanding our group this summer. https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants Like Google Summer of Code (GSoC) the program aims to match motivated people with interesting open source projects that are looking for volunteer contributions.…

Apr 21, 2022

GSoC 22: Come and code a STE||AR Summer with us!

The STE||AR Group is honored to be selected as one of the 2022 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 students and mentors alike. This is our 8th summer being…

Apr 13, 2022

HPX 1.8.0 Release Candidate

The first release candidate of HPX 1.8.0 is now available from our release page (https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/releases/tag/1.8.0-rc1) or by checking out the 1.8.0-rc1 tag. Preliminary and incomplete release notes are available here: https://hpx-docs.stellar-group.org/tags/1.8.0-rc1/html/releases/whats_new_1_8_0.html. As usual, please give it a try in your applications and let us know if you find any problems…

Aug 13, 2021

HPX 1.7.1 released

We have released HPX 1.7.1 to fix minor problems found after the 1.7.0. This patch release fixes a bug in the internals of actions, adds a version check to the new Asio dependency, and slightly improves the performance of spinlocks among other minor changes. Importantly, the experimental hpx::execution::simdpar execution policy…

Jul 26, 2021

CPPCast Episode: HPX and DLA Future

CppCast, hosted by Jason Turner and JeanHeyd Meneide, is the first podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. Since 2015 CppCast has been having conversations with C++ conference speakers, library authors, writers, ISO committee members and more. Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg of the STE||AR Group joined Jason and JeanHeyd…

Jul 14, 2021

HPX 1.7.0 released

The STE||AR Group is proud to announce the release of HPX 1.7.0! This release continues the focus on C++20 conformance in our parallel algorithms, with many new algorithms becoming customization points and others receiving ranges versions. We've also added experimental support for using the new GCC's SIMD data types with…

Jun 15, 2021

Important: IRC channel change

Important: IRC channel change Because of the growing problems with Freenode we have decided to move our IRC channel to a different network. Please /join #ste||ar at Libra.Chat (irc://irc.libera.chat:6667). If you are using the Matrix bridge to IRC, you can join #ste||ar:libera.chat through Matrix. We hope to see you on…

Jun 4, 2021

GSoC Coding Period Starts for Students!

STE||AR Group’s 2021 Google Summer of Code has begun! The coding period starts now for the 2 students selected this year to be funded by Google to work on projects for our group. For those unfamiliar with the program, the Google Summer of Code brings together ambitious students from around…

May 25, 2021

HPX’s Season of Docs 2021

By Rachitt Shah HPX was recently selected to be part of Google’s Season of Docs (GSoD), a program designed to improve the documentation of open source software, as well as being a Google Summer of Code organization. GSoD aims to cover and create the documentation gaps faced by organizations due to various…

Feb 17, 2021

HPX 1.6.0 released!

The STE||AR Group is proud to announce the release of HPX 1.6.0! HPX is an implementation of the C++ standard library for parallelism and concurrency on an efficient user-level threading runtime, with extensions for distributed computing. This release continues the focus on C++20 conformance with multiple new algorithms adapted to…

Feb 9, 2021

HPX 1.6.0 release candidate 2

The second release candidate of HPX 1.6.0 is now available: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/releases/tag/1.6.0-rc2. Compared to the first release candidate we have adapted hpx::remove/remove_if to C++20, fixed compilation with C++20, fixed environment handling and hwloc behaviour on FreeBSD, and adjusted the CMake options for enabling CUDA/HIP support. For users of the resource partitioner…

Oct 1, 2020

HPX 1.5.1 released!

We have just released HPX 1.5.1. This patch release fixes problems found in the 1.5.0 release. It contains the following changes: Removes restriction on suspending runtime with multiple localities, users are now responsible for synchronizing work between localities before suspending.Fixes several compilation problems and warnings.Adds notes in the documentation explaining…

Sep 2, 2020

HPX 1.5.0 released!

The STE||AR Group is proud to announce the release of HPX 1.5.0!This is a big release with many changes and improvements. We have added numerous new features, adapted a lot of algorithms to be C++20 conformant, continued work on modularizing and making HPX lighter, improved usability, stability, and performance. Make…

Aug 26, 2020

HPX 1.5.0 release candidate 3

The third and last release candidate of HPX 1.5.0 is now available. Get it by cloning the repository and checking out the 1.5.0-rc3 tag or downloading the archive from our releases page: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/releases/tag/1.5.0-rc3.The APEX tag has been updated in this release candidate, it includes more algorithms adapted to C++20 and…

Aug 14, 2020

HPX 1.5.0 release candidate 2

The second release candidate of HPX 1.5.0 is now available. Get it by cloning the repository and checking out the 1.5.0-rc2 tag or downloading the archive from our releases page: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/releases/tag/1.5.0-rc2.This second release candidate includes the first version of the release notes for this release 1.5.0. You can check it…

Jul 28, 2020

HPX 1.5.0 release candidate 1

The first release candidate of HPX 1.5.0 is now available. Get it by cloning the repository and checking out the 1.5.0-rc1 tag or downloading the archive from our releases page: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/releases/tag/1.5.0-rc1.                                                                                   This is a big release with many changes and improvements. The main breaking change of this release is that…

Mar 27, 2020

HPX Community Survey Summary

The HPX Community Survey was conducted to gauge user experiences regarding usefulness and functionality, purpose of use, and ease of use of HPX.  Submissions were collected through 03/05/2020, and 33 total responses were received. The findings in this survey will serve as a valuable tool as HPX – it’s breadth…