[pooma-dev] Some POOMA questions

[Jeffrey D. Oldham]

Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> 4. About licensing: While POOMA is currently free for commercial use,
> are there any plans to make it a commercial package down the road? Not
> that we mind paying for software, but I'm a bit reluctant to start using
> something which may suddenly end up becoming an expensive vendor
> lock-in. Also, does/will CodeSourcery offer commercial support for
> POOMA, something like you currently offer for gcc?

The source code is currently available and will be for the foreseeable 
future.  CodeSourcery is available for POOMA development work, but I 
suggest that you first investigate open-source VSIPL++ 
(www.hpec-si.org), which is being actively funded and developed by the 
US Department of Defense.  It will have support for parallel linear 
algebra work.

Jeffrey D. Oldham
oldham at codesourcery.com