fenics team mailing list archive

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

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:56:12AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Yes, that's the plan.
> 
> Kent has made effort to FEniCSize SyFi: using fenicsmanual.cls for the
> manual, conversion from Subversion to hg. There will be a web page,
> mailing list syfi-dev@xxxxxxxxxx etc.
>

Great. It's important that all the sub-projects have some common
"FEniCS" elements to present a unified face, otherwise it will become a
loose collection of unrelated projects (a mini sourceforge).

Garth


> /Anders
> 
> 
>> 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.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> FEniCS-dev mailing list
>>> FEniCS-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-dev
>>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> FEniCS-dev mailing list
> FEniCS-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-dev
>