Phylanx Report: May 2020

The 33^rd month of work focused on work in the following areas:

Fixing build system and contiguous integration issues
Jetlag:
- JetLag video has been recreated after many technical hurdles
  - Traveler bug
  - Machine outages
  - Bugs in Phylanx
  - Some issues remain. The system is not 100% reliable.
- Added capabilities to Phylanx:
  - doc_str to run physl code directly in Python
- PEARC20 paper camera ready copy submitted
Traveller:
- Rendering performance improvements to Traveler-Integrated now merged to master.
- Backend improvements for Jetlag support in-progress.
- Documentation improvements.
APEX:
- APEX/HPX integration bugs fixed:
- Fixed Windows support (PR #122)
- Fixed annotation for internal APEX processing
- Investigated, reported and resolved build / test failures from buildbot and nightly regression tests.
- Updated buildbot continuous integration server and links from GitHub.
- Updated the task graph output from APEX with additional annotations on nodes
- Helped diagnose and test HPX MPI distributed executions
- Helped diagnose and fix annotations within HPX.
- Helped diagnose Phylanx test failures for Release builds
PyFleaux:
- pytiramisu was integrated in phyfleaux.
- Essential Tiramisu functionality exposed in Python
- pytiramisu is the polyhedral backend of phyfleaux
Phylanx:
- Added inverse_d(), slice_d(), expand_dim_d(), diag_d(), shape_d() primitives
- Fixing annotate_d(),
- Adding 3D kmeans algorithm
- Updating to changes in HPX (build system and #include changes)

Organizational Activities and Results

Weekly group-meeting, minutes:
- May 6^th, May 13^th, May 20^th, April 27^th: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-L3qi_kGiCLN0NRaHZDU3d4Q1k

Repository Activity May 1st – May 31st:

Impact on Other Projects