Hi again....

I've been through the full proposal now, and I think what I wrote below still 
holds.

On Dienstag, 21. März 2017 19:53:10 CET you wrote:
> On Dienstag, 21. März 2017 19:46:39 CET you wrote:
> > Hi Aja,
> > 
> > I think you should focus your proposal. As it stands right now, you will
> > not be able to complete everything. I strongly advice to pull together
> > some form of time plan on when you plan to have each part implemented,
> > given the vast number of algorithms you want to implement, it would be
> > great if you can in addition put in some references to already existing
> > solutions.
> > 
> > Please work on focusing your proposal.
> 
> Please ignore the previous email ... I only read the abstract on the mentors
> dashboard... I have to go through the full proposal again ;)
> 
> > On Samstag, 18. März 2017 15:20:28 CET Ajai George wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am Ajai V George, I had previously expressed my interest in doing a
> > > GSoC
> > > project with HPX. For the past week I was going through the hpx
> > > documentation and tutorial. I have been testing out examples and trying
> > > to
> > > write my own applications. I have also looked through the relevant
> > > codebase
> > > needed to resolve issues #1141 and #1338. I also read through the two
> > > papers on ParalleX for understanding the philosophy behind HPX. I
> > > believe
> > > that I can definitely complete this project and continue contributing
> > > further.
> > > 
> > > Please have a look at my GSoC application and help me make it better.
> > > Here
> > > is a link
> > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HVHUxlbknKjGroO4SWoLrJ8T-MljpBSohej
> > > 8Q
> > > KT BieY/edit?usp=sharing> to it.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Ajai V George
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:21 AM, Ajai George <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I am Ajai V George from BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India. My major is
> > > > Electrical and Electronics Engineering. I currently work with
> > > > Professor
> > > > Santonu Sarkar from Centre for High Performance and Dependable Systems
> > > > (Department of Computer Science and Information Systems). My project
> > > > is
> > > > Building 2D Algorithms with shared memory in Thrust which is a CUDA
> > > > library. I am implementing Berkeley Structured Grid Dwarf by extending
> > > > Thrust.
> > > > 
> > > > Due to this project, I have significant experience with CUDA and with
> > > > implementing STL like data structures in CUDA. I have created a
> > > > block_2d
> > > > data
> > > > structure for Thrust for 2d data storage. I created a Thrust and thus
> > > > STL
> > > > compatible iterator for this. I also created an abstraction layer for
> > > > accessing windows (as described in structured grid dwarf) within this
> > > > data structure and an accompanying iterator which lazily generates
> > > > these
> > > > windows. I have created highly optimized for_each, transform, reduce,
> > > > and
> > > > transform_reduce functions for both the thrust 1D device vector and my
> > > > block_2d data structure. These algorithms use shared memory
> > > > efficiently
> > > > with proper memory access coalescence and no shared memory bank
> > > > conflicts. The reduction algorithm also uses a highly optimized tree
> > > > based approach. I have also created this framework such that it can be
> > > > extended to be used with cuFFT and cuBLAS libraries easily.
> > > > 
> > > > Due to the above background I believe, I can work on the Parallel
> > > > Algorithms for HPX project for GSoC 2017, specifically on extending
> > > > algorithms like scan, reduce, transform, for_each, fill, etc to work
> > > > with
> > > > hpx::vector. I have already cloned the repo and have built hpx and am
> > > > currently looking through the source code to see what would be
> > > > impacted
> > > > by
> > > > the project and what changes would be required.
> > > > 
> > > > I request help from the community in crafting my proposal, and in
> > > > understanding hpx codebase.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Ajai V George


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