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cannam@95 56 <h2 class="chapter">11 Acknowledgments</h2>
cannam@95 57
cannam@95 58 <p>Matteo Frigo was supported in part by the Special Research Program SFB
cannam@95 59 F011 &ldquo;AURORA&rdquo; of the Austrian Science Fund FWF and by MIT Lincoln
cannam@95 60 Laboratory. For previous versions of FFTW, he was supported in part by the
cannam@95 61 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under Grants
cannam@95 62 N00014-94-1-0985 and F30602-97-1-0270, and by a Digital Equipment
cannam@95 63 Corporation Fellowship.
cannam@95 64
cannam@95 65 <p>Steven G. Johnson was supported in part by a Dept. of Defense NDSEG
cannam@95 66 Fellowship, an MIT Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship, and by the Materials
cannam@95 67 Research Science and Engineering Center program of the National Science
cannam@95 68 Foundation under award DMR-9400334.
cannam@95 69
cannam@95 70 <p>Code for the Cell Broadband Engine was graciously donated to the FFTW
cannam@95 71 project by the IBM Austin Research Lab and included in fftw-3.2. (This
cannam@95 72 code was removed in fftw-3.3.)
cannam@95 73
cannam@95 74 <p>Code for the MIPS paired-single SIMD support was graciously donated to
cannam@95 75 the FFTW project by CodeSourcery, Inc.
cannam@95 76
cannam@95 77 <p>We are grateful to Sun Microsystems Inc. for its donation of a
cannam@95 78 cluster of 9 8-processor Ultra HPC 5000 SMPs (24 Gflops peak). These
cannam@95 79 machines served as the primary platform for the development of early
cannam@95 80 versions of FFTW.
cannam@95 81
cannam@95 82 <p>We thank Intel Corporation for donating a four-processor Pentium Pro
cannam@95 83 machine. We thank the GNU/Linux community for giving us a decent OS to
cannam@95 84 run on that machine.
cannam@95 85
cannam@95 86 <p>We are thankful to the AMD corporation for donating an AMD Athlon XP 1700+
cannam@95 87 computer to the FFTW project.
cannam@95 88
cannam@95 89 <p>We thank the Compaq/HP testdrive program and VA Software Corporation
cannam@95 90 (SourceForge.net) for providing remote access to machines that were used
cannam@95 91 to test FFTW.
cannam@95 92
cannam@95 93 <p>The <code>genfft</code> suite of code generators was written using Objective
cannam@95 94 Caml, a dialect of ML. Objective Caml is a small and elegant language
cannam@95 95 developed by Xavier Leroy. The implementation is available from
cannam@95 96 <a href="http://caml.inria.fr/"><code>http://caml.inria.fr/</code></a>. In previous
cannam@95 97 releases of FFTW, <code>genfft</code> was written in Caml Light, by the same
cannam@95 98 authors. An even earlier implementation of <code>genfft</code> was written in
cannam@95 99 Scheme, but Caml is definitely better for this kind of application.
cannam@95 100 <a name="index-Caml-627"></a><a name="index-LISP-628"></a>
cannam@95 101
cannam@95 102 <p>FFTW uses many tools from the GNU project, including <code>automake</code>,
cannam@95 103 <code>texinfo</code>, and <code>libtool</code>.
cannam@95 104
cannam@95 105 <p>Prof. Charles E. Leiserson of MIT provided continuous support and
cannam@95 106 encouragement. This program would not exist without him. Charles also
cannam@95 107 proposed the name &ldquo;codelets&rdquo; for the basic FFT blocks.
cannam@95 108 <a name="index-codelet-629"></a>
cannam@95 109
cannam@95 110 <p>Prof. John D. Joannopoulos of MIT demonstrated continuing tolerance of
cannam@95 111 Steven's &ldquo;extra-curricular&rdquo; computer-science activities, as well as
cannam@95 112 remarkable creativity in working them into his grant proposals.
cannam@95 113 Steven's physics degree would not exist without him.
cannam@95 114
cannam@95 115 <p>Franz Franchetti wrote SIMD extensions to FFTW 2, which eventually
cannam@95 116 led to the SIMD support in FFTW 3.
cannam@95 117
cannam@95 118 <p>Stefan Kral wrote most of the K7 code generator distributed with FFTW
cannam@95 119 3.0.x and 3.1.x.
cannam@95 120
cannam@95 121 <p>Andrew Sterian contributed the Windows timing code in FFTW 2.
cannam@95 122
cannam@95 123 <p>Didier Miras reported a bug in the test procedure used in FFTW 1.2. We
cannam@95 124 now use a completely different test algorithm by Funda Ergun that does
cannam@95 125 not require a separate FFT program to compare against.
cannam@95 126
cannam@95 127 <p>Wolfgang Reimer contributed the Pentium cycle counter and a few fixes
cannam@95 128 that help portability.
cannam@95 129
cannam@95 130 <p>Ming-Chang Liu uncovered a well-hidden bug in the complex transforms of
cannam@95 131 FFTW 2.0 and supplied a patch to correct it.
cannam@95 132
cannam@95 133 <p>The FFTW FAQ was written in <code>bfnn</code> (Bizarre Format With No Name)
cannam@95 134 and formatted using the tools developed by Ian Jackson for the Linux
cannam@95 135 FAQ.
cannam@95 136
cannam@95 137 <p><em>We are especially thankful to all of our users for their
cannam@95 138 continuing support, feedback, and interest during our development of
cannam@95 139 FFTW.</em>
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