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diff --git a/libraries/hpx/README b/libraries/hpx/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..95e30e83b2fa9 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/hpx/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +HPX is a C++ Standards Library for Concurrency and Parallelism. It +implements all of the corresponding facilities as defined by the +C++ Standard. Additionally, in HPX we implement functionalities +proposed as part of the ongoing C++ standardization process. We also +extend the C++ Standard APIs to the distributed case. + +The goal of HPX is to create a high quality, freely available, open +source implementation of a new programming model for conventional +systems, such as classic Linux based Beowulf clusters or multi-socket +highly parallel SMP nodes. At the same time, we want to have a very +modular and well designed runtime system architecture which would +allow us to port our implementation onto new computer system +architectures. We want to use real world applications to drive the +development of the runtime system, coining out required +functionalities and converging onto a stable API which will provide +a smooth migration path for developers. + +The API exposed by HPX is not only modelled after the interfaces +defined by the C++11/14 ISO standard, it also adheres to the +programming guidelines used by the Boost collection of C++ libraries. +We aim improve the scalability of today's applications and to expose +new levels of parallelism which are necessary to take advantage of +the exascale systems of the future. |