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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/src/fftw-3.3.3/doc/acknowledgements.texi Wed Mar 20 15:35:50 2013 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +@node Acknowledgments, License and Copyright, Installation and Customization, Top +@chapter Acknowledgments + +Matteo Frigo was supported in part by the Special Research Program SFB +F011 ``AURORA'' of the Austrian Science Fund FWF and by MIT Lincoln +Laboratory. For previous versions of FFTW, he was supported in part by the +Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under Grants +N00014-94-1-0985 and F30602-97-1-0270, and by a Digital Equipment +Corporation Fellowship. + +Steven G. Johnson was supported in part by a Dept.@ of Defense NDSEG +Fellowship, an MIT Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship, and by the Materials +Research Science and Engineering Center program of the National Science +Foundation under award DMR-9400334. + +Code for the Cell Broadband Engine was graciously donated to the FFTW +project by the IBM Austin Research Lab and included in fftw-3.2. (This +code was removed in fftw-3.3.) + +Code for the MIPS paired-single SIMD support was graciously donated to +the FFTW project by CodeSourcery, Inc. + +We are grateful to Sun Microsystems Inc.@ for its donation of a +cluster of 9 8-processor Ultra HPC 5000 SMPs (24 Gflops peak). These +machines served as the primary platform for the development of early +versions of FFTW. + +We thank Intel Corporation for donating a four-processor Pentium Pro +machine. We thank the GNU/Linux community for giving us a decent OS to +run on that machine. + +We are thankful to the AMD corporation for donating an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ +computer to the FFTW project. + +We thank the Compaq/HP testdrive program and VA Software Corporation +(SourceForge.net) for providing remote access to machines that were used +to test FFTW. + +The @code{genfft} suite of code generators was written using Objective +Caml, a dialect of ML. Objective Caml is a small and elegant language +developed by Xavier Leroy. The implementation is available from +@uref{http://caml.inria.fr/, @code{http://caml.inria.fr/}}. In previous +releases of FFTW, @code{genfft} was written in Caml Light, by the same +authors. An even earlier implementation of @code{genfft} was written in +Scheme, but Caml is definitely better for this kind of application. +@cindex Caml +@cindex LISP + + +FFTW uses many tools from the GNU project, including @code{automake}, +@code{texinfo}, and @code{libtool}. + +Prof.@ Charles E.@ Leiserson of MIT provided continuous support and +encouragement. This program would not exist without him. Charles also +proposed the name ``codelets'' for the basic FFT blocks. +@cindex codelet + + +Prof.@ John D.@ Joannopoulos of MIT demonstrated continuing tolerance of +Steven's ``extra-curricular'' computer-science activities, as well as +remarkable creativity in working them into his grant proposals. +Steven's physics degree would not exist without him. + +Franz Franchetti wrote SIMD extensions to FFTW 2, which eventually +led to the SIMD support in FFTW 3. + +Stefan Kral wrote most of the K7 code generator distributed with FFTW +3.0.x and 3.1.x. + +Andrew Sterian contributed the Windows timing code in FFTW 2. + +Didier Miras reported a bug in the test procedure used in FFTW 1.2. We +now use a completely different test algorithm by Funda Ergun that does +not require a separate FFT program to compare against. + +Wolfgang Reimer contributed the Pentium cycle counter and a few fixes +that help portability. + +Ming-Chang Liu uncovered a well-hidden bug in the complex transforms of +FFTW 2.0 and supplied a patch to correct it. + +The FFTW FAQ was written in @code{bfnn} (Bizarre Format With No Name) +and formatted using the tools developed by Ian Jackson for the Linux +FAQ. + +@emph{We are especially thankful to all of our users for their +continuing support, feedback, and interest during our development of +FFTW.} +