[pooma-dev] Some POOMA questions

[Richard Guenther]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jeffrey D. Oldham wrote:

> 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.

This seems to be closed development? At least this site requires passwords
for downloads. Also from the available presentations it seems to be
still in prototype state?

Richard.

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