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TheHPXProject / hpx

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The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency

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The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-12-28 17:35:08 UTC to 2025-06-29 23:18:43 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) | Scientific Software Developer | Zurich/Lugano, Switzerland | Onsite | Full-time The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is operated by ETH Zurich and develops and provides key supercomputing capabilities required to solve important problems in science and society. The Scientific Software and Libraries group at CSCS is looking for developers who love writing stable, performance-portable, scientific software for the latest HPC systems. We have multiple open positions in both Zurich and Lugano. Your work will involve long term projects in either close collaboration with a scientific collaborator, or in a small internal team working on software for use across multiple projects. Some examples of projects you might work on are: - Template meta-programming and domain specific languages to acc
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elerate climate and weather codes on accelerated architectures - Quantum chemical and material science applications used for the prediction of novel materials - Optimising and wrapping sparse linear algebra and mesh codes for our finite element and finite volume users - Combining low-level optimization with task-based parallelism at extreme scale to perform fast linear algebra on the world's largest systems - Communication-avoiding parallel algorithms Our projects are open source whenever possible. Here are some of the projects we develop and contribute to: https://github.com/arbor-sim/arbor, https://github.com/electronic-structure/SIRIUS, https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx. Also have a look at the profiles of some of our team members: https://github.com/bcumming/, https://github.com/biddisco/, https://github.com/halfflat/, https://github.com/havogt/, https://github.com/msimberg/, https://github.com/noraabiakar/. We require you to have great C++ skills and a master in computer science, computational science, mathematics or natural sciences. Ideally you would also have experience in one or more of the following: - Materials science, weather and climate, or linear algebra - Development of numerical or scientific simulation software - Development of GPU-accelerated applications using CUDA or ROCm - Release management - Performance modeling Tell us what project catches your eye and and why you'd be the right candidate in your application: https://emea2.softfactors.com/job-opening/rgum-ZPX9izjHtrEbP.... Due to the migration regulations in Switzerland the process for non-EU residents is more challenging.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) | Scientific Software Developer | Zurich/Lugano, Switzerland | Onsite | Full-time The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is operated by ETH Zurich and develops and provides key supercomputing capabilities required to solve important problems in science and society. The Scientific Software and Libraries group at CSCS is looking for developers who love writing stable, performance-portable, scientific software for the latest HPC systems. We have multiple open positions at both the ETH Hönggerberg campus in Zurich, and at the CSCS headquarters in Lugano. Your work will involve long term projects of at least one year in duration. Projects involve either close collaboration with a scientific collaborator, or work in small internal team working on software for use across multiple projects. Som
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e examples of projects you might work on are: - Template meta-programming and domain specific languages to accelerate climate and weather codes on accelerated architectures - Quantum chemical and material science applications used for the prediction of novel materials - Optimising and wrapping sparse linear algebra and mesh codes for our finite element and finite volume users - Combining low-level optimization with task-based parallelism at extreme scale to perform fast linear algebra on the world's largest systems - Communication-avoiding parallel algorithms Our projects are open source whenever possible. Here are some of the projects we develop and contribute to: https://github.com/arbor-sim/arbor, https://github.com/electronic-structure/SIRIUS, https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx. Also have a look at the profiles of some of our team members: https://github.com/bcumming/, https://github.com/biddisco/, https://github.com/halfflat/, https://github.com/havogt/, https://github.com/msimberg/, https://github.com/noraabiakar/. We require you to have great C++ skills and a master in computer science, computational science, mathematics or natural sciences. Ideally you would also have experience in one or more of the following: materials science, weather and climate, or linear algebra; development of numerical or scientific simulation software; development of GPU-accelerated applications using CUDA or ROCm; release management; or performance modeling. Tell us what project catches your eye and and why you'd be the right candidate in your application: https://apply.refline.ch/845721/6509/pub/1/index.html. Due to the migration regulations in Switzerland the process for non-EU residents is more challenging.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
I have a few problems with this article: >structure leads to complex code that eventually brings down the most desired characteristic of a source code: easiness of understanding. If done well, the structure of things like variadic templates make libraries easier to use, and make coding faster (granted, code bloat can be an issue with N different function signatures). >C++ today is like Fortran: it reached its limits Not quite. Fortran died because well, object oriented programming came out and lots of people like it. And well, C was always more popular regardless so...C-like C++ was the obvious next choice. There is a lot of cruft in any new library, so some things aren't as performant as if you wrote them in say assembly, which is what the author seems to suggest. Yes, if I built a bare metal iostream-like functionality it would be more
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performant (ha, used the word :) ). People know iostream isn't that performant. Could it be better? Perhaps. Is it safe? Yes! If you want perf, use the C interface directly. Is that safe to use, probably not for the general careless user. >To handle the type of speed that is being delivered in droves by the technology companies, C++ cannot be used anymore because it is inherently serial, even in massively multithreaded systems like GPUs. Well, yes but so is just about every language. People are trained to write sequentially (left to right, top to bottom), with many exceptions...but none the less, sequentially. There are very few languages that do multithreading natively. There are lots of additions/libraries to C++ that enable very nice ways to consider parallelism (including w/in standard: std::thread), outside of standard (raftlib.io,hpx(https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx),kokkos (https://github.com/kokkos), etc.). There are lots, some are quite easy to use. C++ is inherently serial, but there is no better way to write. It is fairly easy to pull out "parallel" pieces of code to execute. It is even easier if the programmer gets quick feedback (like the icc loop profiler,etc.) on things like ambiguous references and loop bounds that can be fixed quickly. Interesting read, but don't agree at all.
In Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore
I've used Blaze for machine learning applications, where I've relied on the performance of elementwise operations and dense matrix multiplication on a single machine (the results advertised in the benchmark). Eigen has more functionality, but in my experience is not always optimized as well as Blaze. Neither has support for distributed computing, but I believe this is a problem that HPX is trying to address: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx
In Benchmarks for Blaze, A high-performance C++ math library
Excellent library and writeup !! This is very similar to HPX, the general purpose C++ runtime system for parallel and distributed applications by the Stellar Group - https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx. I recently saw the excellent video presentation by Hartmut Kaiser on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyztU__yys and a lot of concepts in folly futures are quite similar. However the most striking thing in HPX was that all the building blocks are serializable, and the presenter mentioned that it is so because you could serialize and move a thread to a different machine and run it there.
In Futures for C++11 at Facebook

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