[Swift-devel] Welcome 2010 Summer Students

[Michael Wilde]

I want to welcome the 2010 summer students that will be working on Swift:

* Arjun Comar, Rose Hulman Institute, IN, will be working on Swift multisite execution

* David Kelly, Shippensburg University, PA, will be working on Swift tutorials

* Jon Monette, UTexas Austin, TX, will be working on the Montage application in Swift

* Thiago Silva, Campina Grande, Brazil, will be working on the Mosa distributed filesystem

* Dennis Touchet, UTexas Brownsville, TX, will be working on Swift testing

Jon will work on site at the CI and Argonne; Arjun, David, Thiago, and Dennis will work remotely. Arjun, being located near Argonne will come to Argonne roughly once a week.  David and Thiago are GSoC students, Jon is an Argonne SULI student, Arjun is working for the CI, and Dennis is working for UTB. 

The intent is that the students will work as part of an interlocking and extended effort to enhance and apply Swift. I see the efforts of David, Arjun, and Dennis as interlocking very tightly, with Jon working as a Swift user and Thiago as providing a new component for Swift usage on high performance systems. Dan Katz will supervise Jon's work on Montage abd Justin will supervise Thiago's work in coordination with Matei Ripeanu.

We'll start using the Swift lists now for almost all our collaboration on these projects:
  swift-devel for development issues
  swift-user for "how to use Swift" questions
There's also a list "swft at ci.uchicago.edu" list for internal group issues specific to the UChicago/Argonne community like local machine resources, etc. This is seldom needed.

- Mike