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HPX is a C Standard 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 modeled after the interfaces defined by the C 11/14/17/20 ISO standard, it also adheres to the programming guidelines used by the Boost collection of C libraries. We aim to 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.
- HPX exposes a uniform, standards-oriented API for ease of programming parallel and distributed applications.
- It enables programmers to write fully asynchronous code using hundreds of millions of threads.
- HPX provides unified syntax and semantics for local and remote operations.
- HPX makes concurrency manageable with dataflow and future based synchronization.
- It implements a rich set of runtime services supporting a broad range of use cases.
- HPX exposes a uniform, flexible, and extendable performance counter framework which can enable runtime adaptivity
- It is designed to solve problems conventionally considered to be scaling-impaired.
- HPX has been designed and developed for systems of any scale, from hand-held devices to very large scale systems.
- It is the first fully functional implementation of the ParalleX execution model.
- HPX is published under a liberal open-source license and has an open, active, and thriving developer community.
The HPX project is a meritocratic, consensus-based community project. Anyone with an interest in the project can join the community, contribute to the project design and participate in the decision making process. This document describes how that participation takes place and how to set about earning merit within the project community.
If you plan to use HPX we suggest to start with the latest released version which can be downloaded here.
To quickly get started with HPX on most Linux distributions you can read the quick start guide here. Detailed instructions on building and installing HPX on various platforms can be found here. The full documentation for the latest release of HPX can always be found here.
If you would like to work with the cutting edge version of this repository
(master branch) the documentation can be found here.
We strongly recommend that you follow the current health status of the master
branch by looking at our continuous integration results website. While we try to keep the
master branch stable and usable, sometimes new bugs trick their way into the
code base. The CircleCI
continuous integration service additionally tracks the current build status for
the master branch:
We use Codacy to assess the code quality of this
project: . For our coverage analysis, we also rely on
Codacy to present the results:
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If you can't find what you are looking for in the documentation or you suspect you've found a bug in HPX we very much encourage and appreciate any issue reports through the issue tracker for this Github project.
If you have any questions feel free to ask it over at StackOverflow and tag the question with hpx.
For a full list of support options please see our Support page.
We have adopted a code of conduct for this project. Please refer to this document if you would like to know more about the expectations for members of our community, with regard to how they will behave toward each other.
Please find the project's gpg key, which is used to sign HPX releases here.
In publications, please use our paper in The Journal of Open Source
Software as the main citation for HPX:
We have used a free open-source license of PVS-Studio, a static analyzer for C code to check our code base.
Past and current funding and support for HPX is listed here
