I’m forwarding this to our hpx-users mailing list for others to be able to 
chime in.

 

Thanks!

Regards Hartmut

---------------

 <http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu> http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu

 <https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx> https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx

 

From: Tiberiu Bucur <[email protected]> 
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2020 12:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Concurrent Data Structure project for GSoC 2020

 

Dear Mr Kaiser,

 

I am writing to you because I am interested in participating in the Concurrent 
Data Structure project this year as a student and I wanted to ask a few 
questions in order to make sure that I can bring a valuable contribution to the 
project.

 

I am currently a first year Computing student at Imperial College London and I 
have a fair amount of experience with concurrency, as it was part of my 
Programming module in Java, where we discussed various thread-safe 
implementations of abstract data structures (Lists and Red-Black Trees for 
example). I can say that I felt a huge interest in the area from the beginning, 
which is why I would love to contribute to your project.

 

My only concern is regarding the prerequisite knowledge of C++. I have 
programmed in C++ for nearly 4 years during High School, but the purpose of my 
course back then was algorithms, so even though I can say I am familiar with 
the most usual header files and functions and with the language particularities 
like memory access, I do not yet have much OOP knowledge. However, I do have 
OOP knowledge in Java, which is why I am optimistic about my ability to learn 
the OOP particularities of C++ quite fast.

 

I would like to know if the project is doable having considered my current 
abilities, what my chances are of being selected and what I could do to 
increase them. Also, could you give me some more information about what is 
expected to be achieved in terms of data structure thread-safe implementations 
(how many of them, what exact data structures represent a priority), so I could 
think more deeply about organising a schedule for the summer, considering that 
the first 2 or 3 weeks are going to be tougher for me because I will have to 
split my time between University tests and projects and Summer of Code?

 

Thank you in advance for you time and I am looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Kind regards,

Tiberiu Bucur

Imperial College London

Computing First Year Student

_______________________________________________
hpx-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.cct.lsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hpx-users

Reply via email to