yes, but we as mentors will help out as needed, especially on the initial language and compiler integration. Furthermore, it's a rather scalable project in the sense that it could also accommodate multiple students. For example, the different backends are fairly independent sub-projects.
Regards, Matthias On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Nakul Jindal <naku...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is awesome! > I am guessing the goal is to have this epic be a summer worth of > mini-projects for a single GSoC student, isthat correct? > > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > just FYI: I've created https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/SYSTEMML-2083 > > with the gsoc2018 label. If you have additional project ideas, please > file > > the respective JIRAs. Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > yes, that is a good idea and we should leverage this opportunity. I'm > > > happy to mentor a project as well, specifically on parameter server > > > architectures for distributed deep learning in SystemML. > > > > > > Right now we can emulate synchronous parameter servers with parfor, but > > > there are other architectures like asynchronous, stale-synchronous, > > > heterogeneity-aware, and decentralized, which we should support as well > > in > > > form of a dedicated runtime infrastructure similar to local/remote > > parfor. > > > If done right, we should be able to leverage common primitives in > parfor > > > and these parameter servers. > > > > > > Apart from better support for distributed deep learning, this would > bring > > > us much closer to the goal of a unified framework for large-scale > machine > > > learning as we would be the only framework that supports data-parallel > > > (distributed ops), task-parallel (parfor), and model-parallel > (parameter > > > server) execution strategies in a single system. > > > > > > I'll create an epic with sub tasks later this week. The goal would be > to > > > integrate these parameter servers with the underlying data-parallel > > > framework to have a common runtime for distributed operations and > > > automatically support all underlying resource schedulers such as YARN, > > > Mesos, and Kubernetes. Since the project is relatively large, we might > > need > > > to split it up into multiple GSoC projects along with multiple mentors. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Matthias > > > > > > On 1/22/2018 8:53 AM, Nakul Jindal wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Krishna, > > >> > > >> That is a great idea. Thank you for offering to be a mentor/co-mentor. > > >> I suggest that you think of a list of projects that you can mentor, > > >> discuss > > >> them on the mailing list and we can add them as JIRAs with the > > appropriate > > >> tags (as required by Apache). > > >> > > >> If there are students on this mailing list who want to suggest a > topic, > > >> that is very welcome too. If a mentor is willing to take it on, they > > will > > >> respond either here or on a JIRA. > > >> > > >> -Nakul > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:49 PM, Krishna Kalyan < > > krishnakaly...@gmail.com > > >> > > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hello All, > > >>> I was wondering if system-ml community was planning to participate in > > >>> GSoC > > >>> this year. I had a wonderful time last year and learned a lot!. > > >>> > > >>> If we could have a couple of JIRAS for GSoC 2018 it would be great. I > > am > > >>> willing to help out as a mentor/ co-mentor if that is a bottleneck. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> [1] GSoC Website (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) > > >>> [2] GSoC Time Line (https://developers.google. > > >>> com/open-source/gsoc/timeline) > > >>> [3] GSoC 2017 JIRA (https://issues.apache.org/ > > jira/browse/SYSTEMML-1451) > > >>> > > >>> Regards, > > >>> Krishna > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >
