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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> I'm suggesting two new projects to be added to the web page as FEniCS
> projects:
> 
>  1. SyFi by Kent-Andre Mardal
> 
>  2. UFC by Alnæs, Langtangen, Logg, Mardal, Skavhaug
> 
> SyFi is described in detail here:
> 
>     http://folk.uio.no/kent-and/software/SyFi/doc/SyFi.html
> 
> SyFi can be seen as a combination of FIAT and FFC using symbolic
> manipulation through GiNaC in C++ and Python.
> 
> UFC (Unified Form-assembly Code) is a specification of a common
> format for the code generated by FFC, SyFi and other form compilers.
> 
> Are there any objections to adding these two new projects?
>

Sounds good to me. UFC will provide a nice link between different projects.

Will both projects be hosted on www.fenics.org? For the coherence of
FEniCS, I think that this is preferable.

Garth

> We also plan to add another new project UFL (Unified Form Language)
> that specifies (and implements) a common input language for SyFi and
> FFC. At that point, SyFi and FFC will function similarly - the same
> input gives the same output (but with different optimizations) - and
> we may then consider a merge in one form or the other. The methodology
> for the code generation can then be controlled by a simple flag to the
> compiler: tensor representation, symbolics or quadrature.
> 
> /Anders
> 
> PS: As we discussed in Delft, there are more projects in the pipeline
> but we can discuss these projects separately when they are ready for
> inclusion.
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