Subj : Re: Paper - User-Level Threads for Hierarchically Composed Simulations
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Mark Hodson
Date : Tue Aug 23 2005 11:30 pm

David Hopwood wrote:
> 
> Where can we get the source?
> 

Unfortunately the library has been developed largely under contract, so 
the IP isn't mine, and thus I can't post anything beyond the publically 
released paper on the subject (and followup).

Of course such a library has far reaching possibilities well beyond our 
use in simulation, and I know most passive parties (like me, 99% of the 
time I just read some stuff in this newsgroup, rarely post!) might only 
latch on if the post included a link to downloadable source.  I'm quite 
proud of the beastie so I'm keen to see it "out there" and see if others 
think its the bees knees like I do.  ;)

I want to work with my powers-that-be to find some way to release the 
library under an open-source or open-source-like arrangement, at the 
very least because *I'd* like to use it in other stuff possibly in other 
jobs or just mucking around.

To make that happen one needs a plan, something of a business case, like 
"look at all these interested parties" (hence I hoped posting here would 
create interest) or "look at what other people could add to improve what 
we have" - ie. someone *else* can write the IA-64 ASM and give it back, 
and suddenly our simulation architecture now runs on that architecture too!

So since no-one seems to care much about the paper or its performance 
figures, perhaps I should rephrase; if you *could* get the library, what 
would it do for you, and what could you do for it?  Who would be 
interested in using it?  For what?  Under what sorts of arrangements?

If you have better ideas than newsgroups for opening up this kind of 
dialogue with the world then by all means suggest.  :)

Mark.

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