Hello coreutils community, I am new to the exciting world of open source development and thought I should introduce my self and get some feedback on what I am working on. My name is Nima Nikzad and I, along with a small group of students, am working on changes to coreutils as part of a project for Prof. Paul Eggert's software engineering course at UCLA. Specifically, we are looking at how we can better utilize modern multi-core processors when sorting and merging files. My group is first taking a look at how to parallelize the external sort phase of sort's operation. Another group of students is taking a look at in-memory sort while we are working on this.
Has anyone already tried their hand at parallelizing this code? Are there any special considerations we should keep in mind while moving forward? My group was looking to tackle the problem by using OpenMP as we have some experience working with it in the past and like that we can do quite a bit with it while (hopefully) having little impact on the structure of the existing code. Does anyone have any feedback on threading technologies that would be appropriate for this project or does anyone think OpenMP is a poor choice? I look forward to hearing your suggestions! We are looking to have something implemented and benchmarked soon and I will be sure to keep in contact with the community. Please feel free to reach me at nnikzad at ucla.edu. Thank you! - Nima Nikzad _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
