Hi Ivar, Thanks for your advice. All you mentioned are good starting points. I will play with Julia and try my best to contribute to Julia. Thank you.
Thanks, Wenlin On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:31:09 AM UTC-4, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > I'm not the right person to answer this, but here is a summary of what the > others that asked the same questions as you got. > > The most valuable thing to when deciding which students will get approved > is to see your code and that your ability to learn. Read the manual and ask > questions on julia-users that has not been answered before. Read what > others ask, and see if you are able to answer easy some questions. Use your > experience to provide useful comments on github issues and Pull requests. > If you are able to submit some Julia code that does something useful in a > Pull Request to Julia or one of the packages, that would be a huge plus. > > As you say you have some experience in the field, you probably have some > thoughts on how you want to solve some of the problems. A more detailed > proposal is probably also useful for those who will do the selection. > > You will also have to register at googles site and submit all the paper > work. > > Ivar > > kl. 03:18:01 UTC+1 tirsdag 11. mars 2014 skrev Wenlin Hu følgende: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am a PhD candidate of Stony Brook University, USA. My major is Applied >> Mathematics. I am very excited about the opportunity to contribute to Julia >> community from now on. >> >> I have more than five-year research experience on mathematical modeling >> and large-scale numerical simulation (on supercomputers), concentrated on >> interface and computational fluid dynamic related problems. I am proficient >> in C/C++, Matlab, algorithms, data structures, and parallel computing. I >> have keen interest in playing with big data. >> >> Among all the exciting ideas and projects, the project that caught my >> eyes is: >> >> - Dynamic distributed execution for data parallel tasks in Julia >> >> I will be fully engaged in completing this project during summer 2014 if >> selected. >> >> My resume or any other information can be furnished upon request. I am >> looking forward to your advice on how should I proceed for GSoC 2014. >> Thanks. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> Wenlin Hu >> >
