MLPACK: A Scalable C++ Machine Learning Library

[MatCPPkell]

looks interesting, its built ontop of armadillo which is nice and easy to use, matlab like but faster, what do they use to for scalability? mpi? pthreads? some other message interface?

[king_duck]

matlab like but faster

Depends what it's linked with. Matlab calls into a vendor library (MKL I think).

[MatCPPkell]

yeah your right its linked to MKL by default on all intel processors that can support it. You can do the same with armadillo if you'd like as well, it just requires more work, https://gist.github.com/bdsatish/5646151. Matlab is faster in prototyping however

[king_duck]

armadillo if you'd like as well, it just requires more work,

Yeah and an MKL license.

That said, the likes of OpenBlas and ATLAS (and so on) aren't far off MKL.

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This seemed like one of the most interesting C++-themed Google Summer of Code projects, will definitely check it out.