Welcome Nikolay, and thank you for all your efforts for Mahout so far!! Ellen Friedman
On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome!! > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Nikolai Sakharnykh < > nsakharn...@nvidia.com> > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I’m sorry for some delay with my introduction, have been swamped with > > other projects recently ☺ > > > > Having worked at NVIDIA for around 8 years I have seen GPUs to evolve > from > > specialized graphics processors to general purpose computing machines > that > > can tackle any problem in the world (as long as you can extract enough > > parallelism ☺). My area of expertise as an engineer changed as well from > > games and visual effects to high-performance computing and graph > analytics. > > > > I must say that I’m relatively new to machine learning but it is a very > > exciting and quickly evolving field and I’d like to share my knowledge > and > > skills with the community. I’m honored and very happy to be part of this > > group and looking forward to making Apache Mahout work efficiently on > GPUs! > > > > Nikolay. > > > > From: Peng Zhang [mailto:pzhang.x...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 4:31 AM > > To: Nikolai Sakharnykh <nsakharn...@nvidia.com>; d...@mahout.apache.org; > > user@mahout.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Welcome New Committer Nikolay Sakharnykh > > > > Welcome Nikolay. > > > > > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 at 12:17 Andrew Musselman <a...@apache.org<mailto: > akm@ > > apache.org>> wrote: > > The Apache Mahout PMC is pleased to announce that we have asked Nikolay > > Sakharnykh to become a committer and he has accepted. His contribution of > > an initial set of CUDA bindings into the project are good progress toward > > our goal of simplifying matrix math at scale. > > > > Being a committer allows you to contribute more easily to the project, > > since in addition to posting pull requests and patches you're also > granted > > write access to the code repository; which in turn means you can review > and > > accept community contributions, and help others pitch in. > > > > Nikolay, we're looking forward to working with you in the future; > welcome! > > It is customary for new committers to introduce themselves with a few > words > > :) > > > > Best > > Andrew > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ----------------------- > > This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and > > may contain > > confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > > distribution > > is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the > > sender by > > reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ----------------------- > > >
