[Swift-devel] Re: [GSoC] Reminder: contribute GSoC project ideas this week

[wilde at mcs.anl.gov]

Here are the projects I'd like to consider for SoC

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Implementing efficient MapReduce models using the Swift parallel scripting language

The Swift parallel scripting language (www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift) enables you to run many (up to tens of thousands and more) application programs in parallel on clusters, grids, clouds, and supercomputers, as well on on multicore workstations. While Swift, as a functional-inspired programming language makes it easy to specify a map-and-reduce style of scripting, as a general programming language it does not intrinsically use the key-value data model of Google and Hadoop MapReduce, and lacks the ability to automatically sort, partition, and reduce results. This project will focus on creating a map-reduce library tailored for Swift execution.

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Integrating Swift parallel scripting semantics into Python, R, Octave, and MATLAB


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Integrating serviceaccess capabilities in the Swift parallel scripting language

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Measuring and enhancing multi-site parallel scheduling in Swift

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Enabling distributed, interactive debugging and status monitoring/reporting under Swift

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Flexible cloud resource management for the Swift parallel scripting language

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Reworking the Swift mapper model and toolset

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Integrating typecasting into Swift

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----- "Borja Sotomayor" <borja at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Hi mentors and prospective mentors.
> 
> Just a reminder that GSoC project ideas are due this Friday (at 6pm 
> Central) although, if possible, I would appreciate if you could get
> them 
> to me before the end of Wednesday. You can either add them to this
> wiki 
> page (if you have a dev.globus wiki account):
> 
> 	http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010_Ideas
> 
> Or send them to me directly. Some mentors have already added ideas, 
> which can give you an idea of the level of specificity we're looking 
> for. You can also check the project ideas guidelines:
> 
> http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010_Ideas#Project_idea_guidelines
> 
> Cheers!
> --Borja
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Google Summer of Code 2010 - Please contribute project ideas
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:40:52 -0600
> From: Borja Sotomayor <borja at borjanet.com>
> To: gt-dev <gt-dev at lists.globus.org>
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Globus has participated in Google Summer of Code
> (http://code.google.com/soc/) for the last two years, giving us the
> opportunity to work with talented students, expand our community, and
> develop cool projects that would have otherwise languished on a
> wishlist
> somewhere (see http://tinyurl.com/globus-gsoc09 for details on last
> summer's projects, and http://tinyurl.com/globus-gsoc08 for the 2008
> projects).
> 
> We will be applying again this year to be a mentoring organization in
> Summer of Code, and a big part of the application is preparing a
> strong
> list of student projects. I am writing to encourage members of the
> Globus community to add cool and interesting project ideas to the
> following wiki page:
> 
> 	http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010_Ideas
> 
> You will find more information on GSoC and detailed instructions on
> how
> to add a GSoC project idea in the above URL. Even though new project
> ideas are preferable, past GSoC mentors should feel free to re-offer
> any
> idea that was not developed last year (see last year's list:
> http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas)
> 
> The GSoC deadline for mentoring organizations is March 12th, but we
> would like all project ideas to be added by March 10th so we can have
> time to polish them up, ask committers for clarifications, etc.
> 
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reply to this
> thread.
> 
> Cheers!
> -- 
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago
>   Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science
>   Ryerson 257-C, 1100 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL
>   http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/
> Haizea: http://haizea.cs.uchicago.edu/
> ····················································
>      "Dis maschine vill run und run!"
>            -- Kurt Gödel (on the Turing Machine)
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago
>   Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science
>   Ryerson 257-C, 1100 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL
>   http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/
> Haizea: http://haizea.cs.uchicago.edu/
> ··················································
>     "Dis maschine vill run und run!"
>           -- Kurt Gödel (on the Turing Machine)
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> 
> 
> -- 
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago
>   Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science
>   Ryerson 257-C, 1100 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL
>   http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/
> Haizea: http://haizea.cs.uchicago.edu/
> ····················································
>      "Dis maschine vill run und run!"
>            -- Kurt Gödel (on the Turing Machine)
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory