.. _`acknowledgments`:

Acknowledgments
===============

We are very grateful for your continuing support for LiberTEM!

See `the acknowledgement page
<https://libertem.github.io/acknowledgements.html>`_ for a list of
authors and contributors to LiberTEM and its subprojects.

Notable upstream projects
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

`Python <https://www.python.org>`_, `PyData universe <https://pydata.org/>`_,
`Dask.distributed <https://distributed.dask.org/>`_, `PyTorch
<https://pytorch.org/>`_, `NumPy <https://numpy.org/>`_, `OpenBLAS
<https://www.openblas.net/>`_, `Click <https://click.palletsprojects.com/>`_,
`Tornado web <https://www.tornadoweb.org/>`_, `Matplotlib
<https://matplotlib.org/>`_, `Pillow <https://pillow.readthedocs.io/>`_, `H5Py
<https://www.h5py.org/>`_, `Numba <https://numba.pydata.org/>`_, `Psutil
<https://psutil.readthedocs.io/>`_,
`Ncempy <https://openncem.readthedocs.io/>`_

`TypeScript <https://www.typescriptlang.org/>`_, `React
<https://react.dev/>`_, `React Window <https://react-window.vercel.app/>`_, `Redux
<https://redux.js.org/>`_, `Redux-saga <https://redux-saga.js.org/>`_, `Semantic
UI <https://semantic-ui.com/>`_

Not dependencies, but notable related projects or useful tools: `HyperSpy
<https://hyperspy.org/>`_, `NeXus <https://www.nexusformat.org/>`_, `Apache
Spark <https://spark.apache.org/>`_, `Hadoop file system
<https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsDesign.html>`_,
`Godbolt compiler explorer <https://godbolt.org/>`_, `FIO
<https://github.com/axboe/fio>`_, `pyXem
<https://pyxem.readthedocs.io/>`_, `Nion Swift <https://nionswift.readthedocs.io/>`_,
`Alpaka <http://alpaka-group.github.io/alpaka/>`_

Code licensing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Parts of the SEQ reader are based on the PIMS project,
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Funding
~~~~~~~

See `LiberTEM funding <https://libertem.github.io/#funding>`_.

Industry partners
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

See `LiberTEM industry partners <https://libertem.github.io/#industry-partners>`_.