Thanks for the contacts John...(hello everyone). Below is an answer to your
question and a short summary of my background. I will provide more
information (with proof) about myself when I submit my application.
I am just finishing up my undergraduate career this semester at Iowa State
University (ISU) with one degree in Computer Engineering and another in
Computer Science. During my time at ISU, I was a TA for both (sequential)
Algorithms and Theory of Computation. In the fall, I will begin my graduate
career as a PhD student in the Computer Science department at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison. I expect to study subjects in theoretical computer
science, especially computational complexity and algorithms. Numeric
algorithms (especially ones that only use integers) are my favorite types of
algorithms. Additionally, I have taken several courses in mathematics,
including Calculus (I, II, and III) Differential Equations, Matrices and
Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra I, Number Theory, and Graph Theory. In the
fall of 2008, I took Introduction to MPI that included several partner
programming assignments that were executed on the student cluster and
BlueGene here at ISU. I am currently working on a year long senior design
project with two other students to port the Bioinformatics algorithm
DNAPenny from one PS3 to multiple PS3s (last year, a senior design team at
ISU proted DNAPenny to work on a single PS3). As expected, we are
parallizing DNAPenny using MPI.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM, John Pye <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tyson
>
> Thanks for your interest in ASCEND. I have CCed Ben Allan in this email,
> hopefully he will be able to give you some more information about his
> ideas here. Essentially, I think that the idea would be to write a whole
> new solver that can make demonstrated efficiency gains by solving
> equations in parallel where possible. It is a fairly difficult task, so
> you will probably need to show that you've got some suitable background
> in the field: parallel programming and numerical methods. Are you
> undergrad or postgrad currently?
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
> Tyson Williams wrote:
> > My name is Tyson Williams. I am interested in one of the Google
> > Summer of Code project with ASCEND, the one titled "Parallelising
> > ASCEND computations". The contact for that project idea is Ben Allan,
> > but I cannot find his email address anywhere.
> >
> > Can you put me in contact with Ben Allan?
>
> --
> Dr John Pye
> Dept of Engineering
> Australian National University
>
>
>
--
Tyson Williams
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