In this post I’ll go through the simple implementation of LRA (Logistic Regression Algorithm) to outline the Phylanx architecture and also demonstrate how one might go about writing their own programs in Phylanx. The complete version of the code discussed in this post can be found in the project’s GitHub repository under examples/algorithms directory and the corresponding dataset can be found here. Continue reading
Category: Phylanx
Phylanx Report: January 2018
The fifth month of work focused on work in the following areas:
- Tiling
- Performance analysis
Phylanx Seminar: The Agave Platform
Agave is a science-as-a-service platform which we are considering leveraging to assist the dissemination of our work. To help us understand what it can offer our team member, Steve, gave a presentation on the technology on December 11th. Continue reading
Phylanx Status: November 2017
The third month of work focused on
- First Major Milestone Reached: Fully Functional DSL
- Generation of Execution Tree
- Execution of Tree Using HPX
- Demonstrated by a working implementation of Logistic Regression
- Build system improvements
- Data type changes
- I/O primitives
Phylanx Seminar: Python Integration
Now that an HPX back-end is taking shape, the Phylanx team is starting to strategize how best to interface with a forthcoming python front-end. In a talk on November 3rd, Rod discussed the methods of interacting with Python in other projects, the current design of Phylanx, and a Continue reading
Phylanx Report: October 2017
The second month of work focused on
- creating a minimal set of primitives (driven by the use case of implementing a full Logistic Regression Training Algorithm – LRA)
- Migrating the code base from using the Eigen library for all matrix related operations to Blaze, adapting the build system
- Refactoring the compilation subsystem of Phylanx to enable support for higher order functions
Phylanx Seminar
Friday the Phylanx team at LSU held a seminar on the current theory, techniques, and methodology used by the Phylanx project. During the lecture Hartmut laid out the scope of the challenge we are trying to solve and the three components of the project as we have them today. Additionally, he explained the grammar we are using to describe expression trees and the current and future role Python is playing in the project.
You can watch the seminar, as well as, follow along with the overheads and examples provided below.
Seminar Video: https://youtu.be/o11VyxgbQII
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Project Kickoff Meeting
On August 24th and 25th the Phylanx team held our kickoff meeting at Louisiana State University. We had a productive meeting where we were able to start pinning down project details. Some of the major decisions include: formalizing the three tiered project structure, focusing on Continue reading
Hello World!
The Phylanx team is excited to start communicating our vision, research, and results of this project to the broader community. We believe that our ideas have the ability to influence the way that domain scientist utilize HPC resources. It is essential, therefore, to spread our message and include them in our work as early as possible . We hope that this platform will help us accomplish this Continue reading