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   <h3>Data Analysis</h3>

   <dl class="page-index">
     <dt><b><a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">NeuraLab</a></b></dt>

     <dd>Neuralab is a data analysis environment specifically tailored for
     neural data from <a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">Neuralynx</a>
     acquisition systems. Neuralab combines presentation quality graphics, a
     numerical analysis library, and the <a href=
     "http://www.python.org">Python</a> scripting engine in a single
     application. With Neuralab, Neuralynx users can perform common analysis
     tasks with just a few mouse clicks. More advanced users can create custom
     Python scripts, which can optionally be assigned to menus and mouse
     clicks.</dd>
   </dl>

   <dl class="page-index">
     <dt><b>TSLib</b> - <a href="http://www.fortressinv.com">Fortress
     Investment Group LLC</a></dt>

     <dd>
       Fortress Investment Group has contracted <a href=
       "http://www.boost-consulting.com">Boost Consulting</a> to develop core
       internal financial analysis tools in C++ and to prepare Python bindings
       for them using Boost.Python.

       <p>Tom Barket of Fortress writes:</p>

       <blockquote>
         We have a large C++ analytical library specialized for research in
         finance and economics, built for speed and mission critical
         stability. Yet Python offers us the flexibility to test out new ideas
         quickly and increase the productivity of our time versus working in
         C++. There are several key features which make Python stand out. Its
         elegance, stability, and breadth of resources on the web are all
         valuable, but the most important is its extensibility, due to its
         open source transparency. Boost.Python makes Python extensibility
         extremely simple and straightforward, yet preserves a great deal of
         power and control.
       </blockquote>
     </dd>
   </dl>

   <h3>Educational</h3>

   <dl class="page-index">
     <dt><a href="http://edu.kde.org/kig"><b>Kig</b></a></dt>

     <dd>
       <p>KDE Interactive Geometry is a high-school level educational tool,
       built for the KDE desktop. It is a nice tool to let students work with
       geometrical constructions. It is meant to be the most intuitive, yet
       featureful application of its kind.</p>

       <p>Versions after 0.6.x (will) support objects built by the user
       himself in the Python language. The exporting of the relevant internal
       API's were done using Boost.Python, which made the process very
       easy.</p>
     </dd>
   </dl>

   <h3>Enterprise Software</h3>

   <dl class="page-index">
     <dt><b><a href="http://openwbem.sourceforge.net">OpenWBEM</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       The OpenWBEM project is an effort to develop an open-source
       implementation of Web Based Enterprise Management suitable for
       commercial and non-commercial application

       <p><a href="mailto:dnuffer@sco.com">Dan Nuffer</a> writes:</p>

       <blockquote>
         I'm using Boost.Python to wrap the client API of OpenWBEM.This will
         make it easier to do rapid prototyping, testing, and scripting when
         developing management solutions that use WBEM.
       </blockquote>
     </dd>

     <dt><b><a href="http://www.transversal.com">Metafaq</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       Metafaq, from <a href="http://www.transversal.com">Transversal,
       Inc.</a>, is an enterprise level online knowledge base management
       system.

       <p><a href="mailto:ben.young-at-transversal.com">Ben Young</a>
       writes:</p>

       <blockquote>
         Boost.Python is used in an automated process to generate python
         bindings to our api which is exposed though multiple backends and
         frontends. This allows us to write quick tests and bespoke scripts to
         perform one off tasks without having to go through the full
         compilation cycle.
       </blockquote>
     </dd>
   </dl>

   <h3>Games</h3>

   <dl>
     <dt><b><a href="http://www.firaxis.com">Civilization IV</a></b></dt>
   </dl>

   <blockquote>
     &ldquo;The fourth game in the PC strategy series that has sold over five
     million copies, Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a bold step forward for
     the franchise, with spectacular new 3D graphics and all-new single and
     multiplayer content. Civilization IV will also set a new standard for
     user-modification, allowing gamers to create their own add-ons using
     Python and XML.

     <p>Sid Meier's Civilization IV will be released for PC in late 2005. For
     more information please visit <a href=
     "http://www.firaxis.com">http://www.firaxis.com</a> or write <a href=
     "mailto:kgilmore@firaxis.com">kgilmore@firaxis.com</a>&rdquo;</p>
   </blockquote>

   <p>Boost.Python is used as the interface layer between the C++ game code
   and Python. Python is used for many purposes in the game, including map
   generation, interface screens, game events, tools, tutorials, etc. Most
   high-level game operations have been exposed to Python in order to give
   modders the power they need to customize the game.</p>

   <blockquote>
     -Mustafa Thamer, Civ4 Lead Programmer
   </blockquote>

   <dl class="page-index">
     <dt><b><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega
     Strike</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       <a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> is the 3D
       Space Simulator that allows you to trade and bounty hunt in a vast
       universe. Players face dangers, decisions, piracy, and aliens.

       <p><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> has
       decided to base its scripting on python, using boost as the layer
       between the class hierarchy in python and the class hierarchy in C++.
       The result is a very flexible scripting system that treats units as
       native python classes when designing missions or writing AI's.</p>

       <p>A large economic and planetary simulation is currently being run in
       the background in python and the results are returned back into C++ in
       the form of various factions' spaceships appearing near worlds that
       they are simulated to be near in python if the player is in the general
       neighborhood.</p>
     </dd>
   </dl>

   <h3>Graphics</h3>

   <dl class="page-index">
     <dt><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg">OpenSceneGraph
     Bindings</a></b></dt>

     <dd><a href="mailto:gideon@computer.org">Gideon May</a> has created a set
     of bindings for <a href=
     "http://www.openscenegraph.org">OpenSceneGraph</a>, a cross-platform
     C++/OpenGL library for the real-time visualization.<br>
     &nbsp;</dd>

     <dt><b><a href=
     "http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw/index.html">HippoDraw</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       HippoDraw is a data analysis environment consisting of a canvas upon
       which graphs such as histograms, scattter plots, etc, are prsented. It
       has a highly interactive GUI interface, but some things you need to do
       with scripts. HippoDraw can be run as Python extension module so that
       all the manipulation can be done from either Python or the GUI.

       <p>Before the web page came online, <a href=
       "mailto:Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU">Paul F. Kunz</a> wrote:</p>

       <blockquote>
         Don't have a web page for the project, but the organization's is
         <a href=
         "http://www.slac.stanford.edu">http://www.slac.stanford.edu</a> (the
         first web server site in America, I installed it).
       </blockquote>Which was just too cool a piece of trivia to omit.<br>
       &nbsp;
     </dd>

     <dt><a href="http://www.iplt.org"><b>IPLT</b></a></dt>

     <dd>
       <a href="mailto:ansgar.philippsen-at-unibas.ch">Ansgar Philippsen</a>
       writes:

       <blockquote>
         IPLT is an image processing library and toolbox for the structural
         biology electron microscopy community. I would call it a
         budding/evolving project, since it is currently not in production
         stage, but rather under heavy development. Python is used as the main
         scripting/interaction level, but also for rapid prototyping, since
         the underlying C++ class library is pretty much fully exposed via
         boost.python (at least the high-level interface). The combined power
         of C++ and Python for this project turned out to be just awesome.
       </blockquote><br>
       &nbsp;
     </dd>

     <dt><a href=
     "http://www.procoders.net/pythonmagick"><b>PythonMagick</b></a></dt>

     <dd>PythonMagick binds the <a href=
     "http://www.graphicsmagick.org">GraphicsMagick</a> image manipulation
     library to Python.<br>
     &nbsp;</dd>

     <dt><a href="http://www.vpython.org"><b>VPython</b></a></dt>

     <dd>
       <a href="mailto:Bruce_Sherwood-at-ncsu.edu">Bruce Sherwood</a> writes:

       <blockquote>
         VPython is an extension for Python that makes it easy to create
         navigable 3D animations, which are generated as a side effect of
         computational code. VPython is used in education for various
         purposes, including teaching physics and programming, but it has also
         been used by research scientists to visualize systems or data in 3D.
       </blockquote><br>
       &nbsp;
     </dd>
   </dl>

   <h3>Scientific Computing</h3>

   <dl class="page index">
     <dt><a href="http://camfr.sourceforge.net"><b>CAMFR</b></a></dt>

     <dd>
       CAMFR is a photonics and electromagnetics modelling tool. Python is
       used for computational steering.

       <p><a href="mailto:Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be">Peter Bienstman</a>
       writes:</p>

       <blockquote>
         Thanks for providing such a great tool!
       </blockquote>
     </dd>

     <dt><a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net"><b>cctbx - Computational
     Crystallography Toolbox</b></a></dt>

     <dd>
       Computational Crystallography is concerned with the derivation of
       atomic models of crystal structures, given experimental X-ray
       diffraction data. The cctbx is an open-source library of fundamental
       algorithms for crystallographic computations. The core algorithms are
       implemented in C++ and accessed through higher-level Python interfaces.

       <p>The cctbx grew together with Boost.Python and is designed from the
       ground up as a hybrid Python/C++ system. With one minor exception,
       run-time polymorphism is completely handled by Python. C++ compile-time
       polymorphism is used to implement performance critical algorithms. The
       Python and C++ layers are seamlessly integrated using Boost.Python.</p>

       <p>The SourceForge cctbx project is organized in modules to facilitate
       use in non-crystallographic applications. The scitbx module implements
       a general purpose array family for scientific applications and pure C++
       ports of FFTPACK and the L-BFGS quasi-Newton minimizer.</p>
     </dd>

     <dt><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/emsolve"><b>EMSolve</b></a></dt>

     <dd>EMSolve is a provably stable, charge conserving, and energy
     conserving solver for Maxwell's equations.<br>
     &nbsp;</dd>

     <dt><b><a href="http://cern.ch/gaudi">Gaudi</a></b> and <b><a href=
     "http://cern.ch/Gaudi/RootPython/">RootPython</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       Gaudi is a framework for particle physics collision data processing
       applications developed in the context of the LHCb and ATLAS experiments
       at CERN.

       <p><a href="mailto:Pere.Mato@cern.ch">Pere Mato Vila</a> writes:</p>

       <blockquote>
         We are using Boost.Python to provide scripting/interactive capability
         to our framework. We have a module called "GaudiPython" implemented
         using Boost.Python that allows the interaction with any framework
         service or algorithm from python. RootPython also uses Boost.Python
         to provide a generic "gateway" between the <a href=
         "http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> framework and python

         <p>Boost.Python is great. We managed very quickly to interface our
         framework to python, which is great language. We are trying to
         facilitate to our physicists (end-users) a rapid analysis application
         development environment based on python. For that, Boost.Python plays
         and essential role.</p>
       </blockquote>
     </dd>

     <dt><b><a href="http://www.esss.com.br">ESSS</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       ESSS (Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software) is a company that
       provides engineering solutions and acts in the brazilian and
       south-american market providing products and services related to
       Computational Fluid Dynamics and Image Analysis.

       <p><a href="mailto:bruno@esss.com.br">Bruno da Silva de Oliveira</a>
       writes:</p>

       <blockquote>
         Recently we moved our work from working exclusively with C++ to an
         hybrid-language approach, using Python and C++, with Boost.Python
         providing the layer between the two. The results are great so far!
       </blockquote>

       <p>Two projects have been developed so far with this technology:</p>

       <p><b><a href=
       "http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Simba</a></b>
       provides 3D visualization of geological formations gattered from the
       simulation of the evolution of oil systems, allowing the user to
       analyse various aspects of the simulation, like deformation, pressure
       and fluids, along the time of the simulation.</p>

       <p><b><a href=
       "http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Aero</a></b> aims to
       construct a CFD with brazilian technology, which involves various
       companies and universities. ESSS is responsible for various of the
       application modules, including GUI and post-processing of results.</p>
     </dd>

     <dt><b><a href="http://polybori.sourceforge.net/">PolyBoRi</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       <p><a href="mailto:brickenstein@mfo.de"
         >Michael Brickenstein</a> writes:</p>

       <blockquote>
         <p>The core of PolyBoRi is a C++ library, which provides
         high-level data types for Boolean polynomials and monomials,
         exponent vectors, as well as for the underlying polynomial
         rings and subsets of the powerset of the Boolean variables. As
         a unique approach, binary decision diagrams are used as
         internal storage type for polynomial structures. On top of
         this C++-library we provide a Python interface. This allows
         parsing of complex polynomial systems, as well as sophisticated
         and extendable strategies for Gr&ouml;bner basis computation.
         Boost.Python has helped us to create this interface in a
         very clean way.</p>
       </blockquote>
     </dd>

     <dt><b><a href="http://www.rationaldiscovery.com">Rational Discovery
     LLC</a></b></dt>

     <dd>
       Rational Discovery provides computational modeling, combinatorial
       library design and custom software development services to the
       pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries. We do a substantial
       amount of internal research to develop new approaches for applying
       machine-learning techniques to solve chemical problems. Because we're a
       small organization and chemistry is a large and complex field, it is
       essential that we be able to quickly and easily prototype and test new
       algorithms.

       <p>For our internal software, we implement core data structures in C
       and expose them to Python using Boost.Python. Algorithm development is
       done in Python and then translated to C if required (often it's not).
       This hybrid development approach not only greatly increases our
       productivity, but it also allows "non-developers" (people without C
       experience) to take part in method development. Learning C is a
       daunting task, but "Python fits your brain." (Thanks to Bruce Eckel for
       the quote.)</p>
     </dd>
   </dl>

   <h3>Systems Libraries</h3>

   <dl>
     <dt><a href="http://itamarst.org/software"><b>Fusion</b></a></dt>

     <dd>
       <p>Fusion is a library that supports implementing protocols in C++ for
       use with Twisted, allowing control over memory allocation strategies,
       fast method calls internally, etc.. Fusion supports TCP, UDP and
       multicast, and is implemented using the Boost.Python python
       bindings.</p>

       <p>Fusion is licensed under the MIT license, and available for download
       from <a href=
       "http://itamarst.org/software">http://itamarst.org/software</a>.</p>
     </dd>
   </dl>

   <h3>Tools</h3>

   <dl>
     <dt><a href="http://www.jayacard.org"><b>Jayacard</b></a></dt>

     <dd>
       Jayacard aims at developing a secure portable open source operating
       system for contactless smart cards and a complete suite of high quality
       development tools to ease smart card OS and application development.

       <p>The core of the smart card reader management is written in C++ but
       all the development tools are written in the friendly Python language.
       Boost plays the fundamental role of binding the tools to our core smart
       card reader library.</p>
     </dd>
   </dl>
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	<p>This is a partial list of projects using Boost.Python. If you are using
	Boost.Python as your Python/C++ binding solution, we'd be proud to list
	your project on this page. Just <a href=
	"mailto:c++-sig@python.org">post</a> a short description of your project
	and how Boost.Python helps you get the job done, and we'll add it to this
	page .</p>
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	<h3>Data Analysis</h3>

	<dl class="page-index">
	<dt><b><a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">NeuraLab</a></b></dt>

	<dd>Neuralab is a data analysis environment specifically tailored for
	neural data from <a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">Neuralynx</a>
	acquisition systems. Neuralab combines presentation quality graphics, a
	numerical analysis library, and the <a href=
	"http://www.python.org">Python</a> scripting engine in a single
	application. With Neuralab, Neuralynx users can perform common analysis
	tasks with just a few mouse clicks. More advanced users can create custom
	Python scripts, which can optionally be assigned to menus and mouse
	clicks.</dd>
	</dl>

	<dl class="page-index">
	<dt><b>TSLib</b> - <a href="http://www.fortressinv.com">Fortress
	Investment Group LLC</a></dt>

	<dd>
	Fortress Investment Group has contracted <a href=
	"http://www.boost-consulting.com">Boost Consulting</a> to develop core
	internal financial analysis tools in C++ and to prepare Python bindings
	for them using Boost.Python.

	<p>Tom Barket of Fortress writes:</p>

	<blockquote>
	We have a large C++ analytical library specialized for research in
	finance and economics, built for speed and mission critical
	stability. Yet Python offers us the flexibility to test out new ideas
	quickly and increase the productivity of our time versus working in
	C++. There are several key features which make Python stand out. Its
	elegance, stability, and breadth of resources on the web are all
	valuable, but the most important is its extensibility, due to its
	open source transparency. Boost.Python makes Python extensibility
	extremely simple and straightforward, yet preserves a great deal of
	power and control.
	</blockquote>
	</dd>
	</dl>

	<h3>Educational</h3>

	<dl class="page-index">
	<dt><a href="http://edu.kde.org/kig"><b>Kig</b></a></dt>

	<dd>
	<p>KDE Interactive Geometry is a high-school level educational tool,
	built for the KDE desktop. It is a nice tool to let students work with
	geometrical constructions. It is meant to be the most intuitive, yet
	featureful application of its kind.</p>

	<p>Versions after 0.6.x (will) support objects built by the user
	himself in the Python language. The exporting of the relevant internal
	API's were done using Boost.Python, which made the process very
	easy.</p>
	</dd>
	</dl>

	<h3>Enterprise Software</h3>

	<dl class="page-index">
	<dt><b><a href="http://openwbem.sourceforge.net">OpenWBEM</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	The OpenWBEM project is an effort to develop an open-source
	implementation of Web Based Enterprise Management suitable for
	commercial and non-commercial application

	<p><a href="mailto:dnuffer@sco.com">Dan Nuffer</a> writes:</p>

	<blockquote>
	I'm using Boost.Python to wrap the client API of OpenWBEM.This will
	make it easier to do rapid prototyping, testing, and scripting when
	developing management solutions that use WBEM.
	</blockquote>
	</dd>

	<dt><b><a href="http://www.transversal.com">Metafaq</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	Metafaq, from <a href="http://www.transversal.com">Transversal,
	Inc.</a>, is an enterprise level online knowledge base management
	system.

	<p><a href="mailto:ben.young-at-transversal.com">Ben Young</a>
	writes:</p>

	<blockquote>
	Boost.Python is used in an automated process to generate python
	bindings to our api which is exposed though multiple backends and
	frontends. This allows us to write quick tests and bespoke scripts to
	perform one off tasks without having to go through the full
	compilation cycle.
	</blockquote>
	</dd>
	</dl>

	<h3>Games</h3>

	<dl>
	<dt><b><a href="http://www.firaxis.com">Civilization IV</a></b></dt>
	</dl>

	<blockquote>
	“The fourth game in the PC strategy series that has sold over five
	million copies, Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a bold step forward for
	the franchise, with spectacular new 3D graphics and all-new single and
	multiplayer content. Civilization IV will also set a new standard for
	user-modification, allowing gamers to create their own add-ons using
	Python and XML.

	<p>Sid Meier's Civilization IV will be released for PC in late 2005. For
	more information please visit <a href=
	"http://www.firaxis.com">http://www.firaxis.com</a> or write <a href=
	"mailto:kgilmore@firaxis.com">kgilmore@firaxis.com</a>”</p>
	</blockquote>

	<p>Boost.Python is used as the interface layer between the C++ game code
	and Python. Python is used for many purposes in the game, including map
	generation, interface screens, game events, tools, tutorials, etc. Most
	high-level game operations have been exposed to Python in order to give
	modders the power they need to customize the game.</p>

	<blockquote>
	-Mustafa Thamer, Civ4 Lead Programmer
	</blockquote>

	<dl class="page-index">
	<dt><b><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega
	Strike</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	<a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> is the 3D
	Space Simulator that allows you to trade and bounty hunt in a vast
	universe. Players face dangers, decisions, piracy, and aliens.

	<p><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> has
	decided to base its scripting on python, using boost as the layer
	between the class hierarchy in python and the class hierarchy in C++.
	The result is a very flexible scripting system that treats units as
	native python classes when designing missions or writing AI's.</p>

	<p>A large economic and planetary simulation is currently being run in
	the background in python and the results are returned back into C++ in
	the form of various factions' spaceships appearing near worlds that
	they are simulated to be near in python if the player is in the general
	neighborhood.</p>
	</dd>
	</dl>

	<h3>Graphics</h3>

	<dl class="page-index">
	<dt><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg">OpenSceneGraph
	Bindings</a></b></dt>

	<dd><a href="mailto:gideon@computer.org">Gideon May</a> has created a set
	of bindings for <a href=
	"http://www.openscenegraph.org">OpenSceneGraph</a>, a cross-platform
	C++/OpenGL library for the real-time visualization.<br>
	</dd>

	<dt><b><a href=
	"http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw/index.html">HippoDraw</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	HippoDraw is a data analysis environment consisting of a canvas upon
	which graphs such as histograms, scattter plots, etc, are prsented. It
	has a highly interactive GUI interface, but some things you need to do
	with scripts. HippoDraw can be run as Python extension module so that
	all the manipulation can be done from either Python or the GUI.

	<p>Before the web page came online, <a href=
	"mailto:Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU">Paul F. Kunz</a> wrote:</p>

	<blockquote>
	Don't have a web page for the project, but the organization's is
	<a href=
	"http://www.slac.stanford.edu">http://www.slac.stanford.edu</a> (the
	first web server site in America, I installed it).
	</blockquote>Which was just too cool a piece of trivia to omit.<br>

	</dd>

	<dt><a href="http://www.iplt.org"><b>IPLT</b></a></dt>

	<dd>
	<a href="mailto:ansgar.philippsen-at-unibas.ch">Ansgar Philippsen</a>
	writes:

	<blockquote>
	IPLT is an image processing library and toolbox for the structural
	biology electron microscopy community. I would call it a
	budding/evolving project, since it is currently not in production
	stage, but rather under heavy development. Python is used as the main
	scripting/interaction level, but also for rapid prototyping, since
	the underlying C++ class library is pretty much fully exposed via
	boost.python (at least the high-level interface). The combined power
	of C++ and Python for this project turned out to be just awesome.
	</blockquote><br>

	</dd>

	<dt><a href=
	"http://www.procoders.net/pythonmagick"><b>PythonMagick</b></a></dt>

	<dd>PythonMagick binds the <a href=
	"http://www.graphicsmagick.org">GraphicsMagick</a> image manipulation
	library to Python.<br>
	</dd>

	<dt><a href="http://www.vpython.org"><b>VPython</b></a></dt>

	<dd>
	<a href="mailto:Bruce_Sherwood-at-ncsu.edu">Bruce Sherwood</a> writes:

	<blockquote>
	VPython is an extension for Python that makes it easy to create
	navigable 3D animations, which are generated as a side effect of
	computational code. VPython is used in education for various
	purposes, including teaching physics and programming, but it has also
	been used by research scientists to visualize systems or data in 3D.
	</blockquote><br>

	</dd>
	</dl>

	<h3>Scientific Computing</h3>

	<dl class="page index">
	<dt><a href="http://camfr.sourceforge.net"><b>CAMFR</b></a></dt>

	<dd>
	CAMFR is a photonics and electromagnetics modelling tool. Python is
	used for computational steering.

	<p><a href="mailto:Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be">Peter Bienstman</a>
	writes:</p>

	<blockquote>
	Thanks for providing such a great tool!
	</blockquote>
	</dd>

	<dt><a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net"><b>cctbx - Computational
	Crystallography Toolbox</b></a></dt>

	<dd>
	Computational Crystallography is concerned with the derivation of
	atomic models of crystal structures, given experimental X-ray
	diffraction data. The cctbx is an open-source library of fundamental
	algorithms for crystallographic computations. The core algorithms are
	implemented in C++ and accessed through higher-level Python interfaces.

	<p>The cctbx grew together with Boost.Python and is designed from the
	ground up as a hybrid Python/C++ system. With one minor exception,
	run-time polymorphism is completely handled by Python. C++ compile-time
	polymorphism is used to implement performance critical algorithms. The
	Python and C++ layers are seamlessly integrated using Boost.Python.</p>

	<p>The SourceForge cctbx project is organized in modules to facilitate
	use in non-crystallographic applications. The scitbx module implements
	a general purpose array family for scientific applications and pure C++
	ports of FFTPACK and the L-BFGS quasi-Newton minimizer.</p>
	</dd>

	<dt><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/emsolve"><b>EMSolve</b></a></dt>

	<dd>EMSolve is a provably stable, charge conserving, and energy
	conserving solver for Maxwell's equations.<br>
	</dd>

	<dt><b><a href="http://cern.ch/gaudi">Gaudi</a></b> and <b><a href=
	"http://cern.ch/Gaudi/RootPython/">RootPython</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	Gaudi is a framework for particle physics collision data processing
	applications developed in the context of the LHCb and ATLAS experiments
	at CERN.

	<p><a href="mailto:Pere.Mato@cern.ch">Pere Mato Vila</a> writes:</p>

	<blockquote>
	We are using Boost.Python to provide scripting/interactive capability
	to our framework. We have a module called "GaudiPython" implemented
	using Boost.Python that allows the interaction with any framework
	service or algorithm from python. RootPython also uses Boost.Python
	to provide a generic "gateway" between the <a href=
	"http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> framework and python

	<p>Boost.Python is great. We managed very quickly to interface our
	framework to python, which is great language. We are trying to
	facilitate to our physicists (end-users) a rapid analysis application
	development environment based on python. For that, Boost.Python plays
	and essential role.</p>
	</blockquote>
	</dd>

	<dt><b><a href="http://www.esss.com.br">ESSS</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	ESSS (Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software) is a company that
	provides engineering solutions and acts in the brazilian and
	south-american market providing products and services related to
	Computational Fluid Dynamics and Image Analysis.

	<p><a href="mailto:bruno@esss.com.br">Bruno da Silva de Oliveira</a>
	writes:</p>

	<blockquote>
	Recently we moved our work from working exclusively with C++ to an
	hybrid-language approach, using Python and C++, with Boost.Python
	providing the layer between the two. The results are great so far!
	</blockquote>

	<p>Two projects have been developed so far with this technology:</p>

	<p><b><a href=
	"http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Simba</a></b>
	provides 3D visualization of geological formations gattered from the
	simulation of the evolution of oil systems, allowing the user to
	analyse various aspects of the simulation, like deformation, pressure
	and fluids, along the time of the simulation.</p>

	<p><b><a href=
	"http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Aero</a></b> aims to
	construct a CFD with brazilian technology, which involves various
	companies and universities. ESSS is responsible for various of the
	application modules, including GUI and post-processing of results.</p>
	</dd>

	<dt><b><a href="http://polybori.sourceforge.net/">PolyBoRi</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	<p><a href="mailto:brickenstein@mfo.de"
	>Michael Brickenstein</a> writes:</p>

	<blockquote>
	<p>The core of PolyBoRi is a C++ library, which provides
	high-level data types for Boolean polynomials and monomials,
	exponent vectors, as well as for the underlying polynomial
	rings and subsets of the powerset of the Boolean variables. As
	a unique approach, binary decision diagrams are used as
	internal storage type for polynomial structures. On top of
	this C++-library we provide a Python interface. This allows
	parsing of complex polynomial systems, as well as sophisticated
	and extendable strategies for Gröbner basis computation.
	Boost.Python has helped us to create this interface in a
	very clean way.</p>
	</blockquote>
	</dd>

	<dt><b><a href="http://www.rationaldiscovery.com">Rational Discovery
	LLC</a></b></dt>

	<dd>
	Rational Discovery provides computational modeling, combinatorial
	library design and custom software development services to the
	pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries. We do a substantial
	amount of internal research to develop new approaches for applying
	machine-learning techniques to solve chemical problems. Because we're a
	small organization and chemistry is a large and complex field, it is
	essential that we be able to quickly and easily prototype and test new
	algorithms.

	<p>For our internal software, we implement core data structures in C
	and expose them to Python using Boost.Python. Algorithm development is
	done in Python and then translated to C if required (often it's not).
	This hybrid development approach not only greatly increases our
	productivity, but it also allows "non-developers" (people without C
	experience) to take part in method development. Learning C is a
	daunting task, but "Python fits your brain." (Thanks to Bruce Eckel for
	the quote.)</p>
	</dd>
	</dl>

	<h3>Systems Libraries</h3>

	<dl>
	<dt><a href="http://itamarst.org/software"><b>Fusion</b></a></dt>

	<dd>
	<p>Fusion is a library that supports implementing protocols in C++ for
	use with Twisted, allowing control over memory allocation strategies,
	fast method calls internally, etc.. Fusion supports TCP, UDP and
	multicast, and is implemented using the Boost.Python python
	bindings.</p>

	<p>Fusion is licensed under the MIT license, and available for download
	from <a href=
	"http://itamarst.org/software">http://itamarst.org/software</a>.</p>
	</dd>
	</dl>

	<h3>Tools</h3>

	<dl>
	<dt><a href="http://www.jayacard.org"><b>Jayacard</b></a></dt>

	<dd>
	Jayacard aims at developing a secure portable open source operating
	system for contactless smart cards and a complete suite of high quality
	development tools to ease smart card OS and application development.

	<p>The core of the smart card reader management is written in C++ but
	all the development tools are written in the friendly Python language.
	Boost plays the fundamental role of binding the tools to our core smart
	card reader library.</p>
	</dd>
	</dl>
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