Dear Cristian, we always appreciate contributors so you're most welcome to aid with the development of any of our projects (e.g. HPX and LibGeoDecomp). independently from GSoC.
Kind regards
-Andreas
On 02:45 Fri 25 Mar , Cristian Dragu wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> Thank you for your reply. I will have a look over the archives you gave me.
> Considering I'm using my actual time learning CUDA C I will decide which
> one of the two projects fits better with my knowledge. One important
> questions is: Would I be able to continue working on this project by using
> the archives, any other communication channels (IRC, mail list, and
> others), even if I am not sending a proposal? (This means that I will not
> participate to GSoC). I say this only because the deadline is today, I
> didn't work on this project until now, and I have 2 homework to finish in 3
> days for faculty. I am eager to learn new things about parallel and
> distributed algorithms, parallel calculations and related stuff, and I
> would be grateful if I could continue to work by my schedule (faculty has a
> great effect on my schedule) on one of the two projects.
>
> If you have some advices, they are welcomed.
>
> Best regards,
> Cristian Dragu
>
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> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Andreas Schäfer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Cristian,
> >
> > thanks for reaching out to me directly. I'm CC'ing hpx-users here and
> > I'd suggest you to subscribe to that list yourself as we keep all of
> > our GSoC discussions on this list.
> >
> > On 11:32 Thu 24 Mar , Cristian Dragu wrote:
> > > My name is Cristian Dragu. I am a student at Faculty of Automatic Control
> > > and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest.
> > >
> > > I would like to get involved in one of the projects you are mentoring at
> > > GSoC. The two projects I am interested in are Implement a Map/Reduce
> > > Framework and Newtonian physics sandbox.
> > >
> > > During the past semester I have studied the Parallel and distributed
> > > algorithms (completed some homework using MPI, OpenMP and
> > ReplicatedWorkers
> > > (Map/Reduce) with threading in Java).
> > >
> > > I would like to talk to you about these two projects, because I have to
> > > choose one of them, but first I must know more things about them.
> > >
> > > Firstly, I have looked over Hadoop since it's a framework somehow related
> > > to the Map/Reduce Framework. I would like you to tell me how different,
> > > less/more complicated the framework should be compared to Hadoop.
> > > I have started reading some tutorials about Hadoop and looked over his
> > > arhitecture:
> > >
> > http://blog.raremile.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/hadoop_architecture.jpg
> >
> > We've covered this project before, so you might want to check the
> > mailing list's archives[1] to get more info. I don't think it would be
> > reasonable to expect anything on par with Hadoop (which is production
> > quality software) from a short GSoC project.
> >
> > > Secondly, I would like you to tell me more things about Newtonian physics
> > > sandbox. It looks like a nice project, but I have exactly no idea how to
> > > start it, because probably I misunderstood the project's explanation. The
> > > only thing I do at this moment is to watch some tutorial for CUDA
> > > (LibGeoDecomp supports CUDA, so I thought that if I learn some CUDA C it
> > > might come in help).
> >
> > For speed: please take a look at my exchange with Aleksandr Sofienko
> > on this project on the hpx-users list (archive for March). Please feel
> > free if you have any further questions.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > -Andreas
> >
> > [1] http://mail.cct.lsu.edu/pipermail/hpx-users/
> >
> >
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> > Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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