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