Software

Note:: The list below has become cumbersome to maintain, and so I’ve mostly stopped doing that. Just check out my Github profile for a comprehensive list or my main page for the software I’m currently proudest of.

Active projects related to scientific computing

Most of my software these days has to do with research:

  • pytential evaluates layer potential at high order accuracy, in linear time, on unstructured geometries. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

  • grudge is an unstructured, high-order, parallel Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) code. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

  • PyOpenCL makes the industry-standard OpenCL compute abstraction accessible from Python. It features automatic cleanup functionality and tight integration with Numpy. In the same spirit as PyCUDA, rather than being merely a nice interface, it aims to enable a new, generative style of programming. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • PyCUDA makes the Nvidia CUDA compute abstraction accessible from Python. It features automatic cleanup functionality and tight integration with Numpy. But rather than merely a nice interface to CUDA, it aims to enable a new, generative style of GPU programming. It further contains a GPU-based array package and building blocks for common vectorial and reductive operations. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • Loopy is a code generator for array-based number crunching code on CPUs and GPUs, using OpenCL Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • ModePy provides interpolation, differentiation and many other ‘spectral-element’-like tools for unstructured high-order discretizations. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • MeshPy allows you to generate quality triangular and tetrahedral finite element meshes directly in Python. (MeshPy itself is MIT-licensed, but the mesh generators have more restrictive licenses that prohibit commercial use.)

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  • PyVisFile allows writing large files of visualization data in the Vtk and silo formats. Pyvisfile is under the MIT license.

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  • islpy binds Sven Verdoolaege’s integer set library to Python. islpy is under the MIT license, but it depends on the isl, which is under the LGPL.

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  • CGen allows syntax-tree-based generation of C/C++/OpenCL/CUDA source code. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • CodePy is a CPU metaprogramming toolkit that supports compilation of C code at runtime and enables dynamic linking of generated code into a running Python instance. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • PyMetis allows you to partition graphs into controllable-size lumps, or, as an application of that, partition finite-element meshes for use on parallel computers. (PyMetis itself is MIT, but Metis is non-free as defined by the DFSG.)

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Small “tool” packages

  • Pymbolic is a lightweight library to perform symbolic calculations in Python. If you need to take derivatives, expand polynomials or simplify expressions, Pymbolic is for you. If you neeed heavy-lifting procedures such as limits and integration, you might want to look elsewhere, as I’m not sure these will ever get implemented. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • Pytools is a mixed bag of Python usefulness. Most of my other Python hacks need this to work. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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Projects not related to scientific computing (but still fun)

  • PuDB is a source-level debugger for Python. It runs in a terminal and is based on Ian Ward’s Urwid library. Available under the terms of the MIT license. (but depends on a GPL library)

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  • The Unicode Input Helper, a unicode character map program with a bias towards typing math.

Inactive projects

  • Pyrticle is an experimental hybrid Particle-in-Cell solver based on hedge. It forms the testbed for our research into combining discontinuous Galerkin Maxwell field solvers with particle-based solvers for the Vlasov equation. Licensed under the copyleft GPL3.
  • Clockwork is a small time tracking script.
  • FemPy is a small finite element package in and for Python.
  • PyLinear is a (sparse and dense) matrix computation package for Python.
  • SDLucid is a multimedia wrapper library.
  • ixlib is a (mostly deprecated) tool library for C++.
  • WAM is a jump-n-run-n-shoot game about a mole. Incomplete.
  • Orbit C++ is a CORBA language binding which I helped create. It lives on in ORBit, Gnome’s CORBA ORB.
  • MiniIDE is a tool for your edit-compile-debug cycle. Pretty old, but it does work.
  • madman is like iTunes, only better. :) And for Linux. Licensed under the copyleft GPL2.

  • synoptic helps me keep my notes in order—research or otherwise. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

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  • tagpy is a set of Python bindings for the media tagging library TagLib. Available under the terms of the MIT license. (but depends on an LGPL library)

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  • A Linux/LIRC interface for the Intervideo XPC-RC01 remote. Available under the terms of the MIT license.

  • A Sokoban solver.

  • A Python/PyGame clone of the PopCap game Bejeweled.