[cctbxbb] Allocators

[Graeme.Winter@Diamond.ac.uk]

Hello All,

In keeping with the spirit of

https://github.com/cctbx/cctbx_project/wiki/cctbx-contributors-guide

we would like to revisit the allocator work now Phenix 1.14 is out in the wild - however since we now know that this needs to be done we are interested in other points of view people have on ways to do this, and options people would like to have. It is important to note that we have no intention of changing the default behaviour, but we do want to be able to use customised allocators with flex arrays e.g. for handing out memory of well known and repeatedly used sizes (say, 16 M pixel double arrays) or allocate in specific areas for NUMA systems such as xeon phi.

We prototyped this a while back and stepped the changes back out again to enable the phenix release to proceed smoothly, so we have a pretty good idea of the sorts of things we would expect to do however will welcome input if you would like additional features.

As a baseline, we are talking as a parameter that PHENIX are no longer supporting CENTOS 5 32 bit (since ISTR this was a constraint before)

Any thoughts? Appreciate a number of folks will be travelling back after the PHENIX workshop.

Many thanks Graeme

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