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79 <h2 class="chapter">11 Acknowledgments</h2>
80
81 <p>Matteo Frigo was supported in part by the Special Research Program SFB
82 F011 &ldquo;AURORA&rdquo; of the Austrian Science Fund FWF and by MIT Lincoln
83 Laboratory. For previous versions of FFTW, he was supported in part by the
84 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under Grants
85 N00014-94-1-0985 and F30602-97-1-0270, and by a Digital Equipment
86 Corporation Fellowship.
87 </p>
88 <p>Steven G. Johnson was supported in part by a Dept.&nbsp;of Defense NDSEG
89 Fellowship, an MIT Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship, and by the Materials
90 Research Science and Engineering Center program of the National Science
91 Foundation under award DMR-9400334.
92 </p>
93 <p>Code for the Cell Broadband Engine was graciously donated to the FFTW
94 project by the IBM Austin Research Lab and included in fftw-3.2. (This
95 code was removed in fftw-3.3.)
96 </p>
97 <p>Code for the MIPS paired-single SIMD support was graciously donated to
98 the FFTW project by CodeSourcery, Inc.
99 </p>
100 <p>We are grateful to Sun Microsystems Inc.&nbsp;for its donation of a
101 cluster of 9 8-processor Ultra HPC 5000 SMPs (24 Gflops peak). These
102 machines served as the primary platform for the development of early
103 versions of FFTW.
104 </p>
105 <p>We thank Intel Corporation for donating a four-processor Pentium Pro
106 machine. We thank the GNU/Linux community for giving us a decent OS to
107 run on that machine.
108 </p>
109 <p>We are thankful to the AMD corporation for donating an AMD Athlon XP 1700+
110 computer to the FFTW project.
111 </p>
112 <p>We thank the Compaq/HP testdrive program and VA Software Corporation
113 (SourceForge.net) for providing remote access to machines that were used
114 to test FFTW.
115 </p>
116 <p>The <code>genfft</code> suite of code generators was written using Objective
117 Caml, a dialect of ML. Objective Caml is a small and elegant language
118 developed by Xavier Leroy. The implementation is available from
119 <a href="http://caml.inria.fr/"><code>http://caml.inria.fr/</code></a>. In previous
120 releases of FFTW, <code>genfft</code> was written in Caml Light, by the same
121 authors. An even earlier implementation of <code>genfft</code> was written in
122 Scheme, but Caml is definitely better for this kind of application.
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127 <p>FFTW uses many tools from the GNU project, including <code>automake</code>,
128 <code>texinfo</code>, and <code>libtool</code>.
129 </p>
130 <p>Prof.&nbsp;Charles E.&nbsp;Leiserson of MIT provided continuous support and
131 encouragement. This program would not exist without him. Charles also
132 proposed the name &ldquo;codelets&rdquo; for the basic FFT blocks.
133 <a name="index-codelet-3"></a>
134 </p>
135
136 <p>Prof.&nbsp;John D.&nbsp;Joannopoulos of MIT demonstrated continuing tolerance of
137 Steven&rsquo;s &ldquo;extra-curricular&rdquo; computer-science activities, as well as
138 remarkable creativity in working them into his grant proposals.
139 Steven&rsquo;s physics degree would not exist without him.
140 </p>
141 <p>Franz Franchetti wrote SIMD extensions to FFTW 2, which eventually
142 led to the SIMD support in FFTW 3.
143 </p>
144 <p>Stefan Kral wrote most of the K7 code generator distributed with FFTW
145 3.0.x and 3.1.x.
146 </p>
147 <p>Andrew Sterian contributed the Windows timing code in FFTW 2.
148 </p>
149 <p>Didier Miras reported a bug in the test procedure used in FFTW 1.2. We
150 now use a completely different test algorithm by Funda Ergun that does
151 not require a separate FFT program to compare against.
152 </p>
153 <p>Wolfgang Reimer contributed the Pentium cycle counter and a few fixes
154 that help portability.
155 </p>
156 <p>Ming-Chang Liu uncovered a well-hidden bug in the complex transforms of
157 FFTW 2.0 and supplied a patch to correct it.
158 </p>
159 <p>The FFTW FAQ was written in <code>bfnn</code> (Bizarre Format With No Name)
160 and formatted using the tools developed by Ian Jackson for the Linux
161 FAQ.
162 </p>
163 <p><em>We are especially thankful to all of our users for their
164 continuing support, feedback, and interest during our development of
165 FFTW.</em>
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