misc.rst

Installation

This command should install :mod:`loopy`:

pip install https://github.com/inducer/loopy/tarball/master

You may need to run this with :command:`sudo`. If you don't already have pip, run this beforehand:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

For a more manual installation, download the source, unpack it, and say:

python setup.py install

You may also clone its git repository:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/inducer/loopy
git clone --recursive http://git.tiker.net/trees/loopy.git

User-visible Changes

Version 2014.1

Note

This version is currently under development. You can get snapshots from PyOpenCL's git repository

• Initial release.

Licensing

Loopy is licensed to you under the MIT/X Consortium license:

Copyright (c) 2009-13 Andreas Klöckner and Contributors.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Frequently Asked Questions

The FAQ is maintained collaboratively on the Wiki FAQ page.

Citing Loopy

If you use loopy for your work and find its approach helpful, please consider citing the following article.

A. Klöckner. Loo.py: transformation-based code generation for GPUs and CPUs. Proceedings of ARRAY '14: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Libraries, Languages, and Compilers for Array Programming. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Here's a Bibtex entry for your convenience:

@inproceedings{kloeckner_loopy_2014,
   author = {{Kl{\"o}ckner}, Andreas},
   title = "{Loo.py: transformation-based code~generation for GPUs and CPUs}",
   booktitle = "{Proceedings of ARRAY `14: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop
     on Libraries, Languages, and Compilers for Array Programming}",
   year = 2014,
   publisher = "{Association for Computing Machinery}",
   address = "{Edinburgh, Scotland.}",
   doi = "{10.1145/2627373.2627387}",
}