Hi Tyson That sounds really great, you look like a really strong candidate for this work. We'll keenly await Ben's feedback.
Cheers JP Tyson Williams wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Ascend-sim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users
