Roadmap Shogun 2015 hack

Shogun hack 2015 Ideas

This is a list of topics to address when all Shogun developers get together. We aim to have a structured list of items, with links to existing or newly created github issues. Feel free to merge this with content from the other Wiki pages or discussions.

Ideas and github issues:

• A meta-langauge for Shogun example: #2508.
• Modularise Shogun to reduce compile memory requirements #2437
• Website updates (Kevin had some ideas?)
• Cluster backend interface
  • Batch cluster backend (PBS/SGE,SLURM,etc) #1622
  • Pthread/openMP backend #1623
  • Director classes to use Shogun as scheduler from modular interface #1624
  • Add dependencies between jobs #2524
  • Graphlab backend #2525
• Populate internal Linear algebra interface
  • Add matrix factorisations #2526
  • Add linear solves #2527
• Manifest "What is Shogun? What tries Shogun to be?"
• Notebooks of things that are not yet covered
• Binary packages for various OS
  • Ubuntu LTS #2520
  • OSX #2521
• Serialisation via external library
• General polishing
• Bindings to other libraries in an organised way
  • Stan #1875 #1998 #1929