[Soot-list] Seeking proposals for Google Summer Of Code projects

Patrick Lam plam at sable.mcgill.ca
Wed Feb 27 10:47:15 EST 2013


I think that most of the processing time for Spark is not Spark itself 
but jimplification of its input. Faster jimplification could be a 
potential SoC project, but I'm not really sure about how to do it.

pat

On 02/27/13 10:46, Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau wrote:
> Thanks for your input. Do you think we can isolate a subset?
> Spark comes to mind as probably where people would like to see speedups :)
>
> Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
> Doctorant - PhD Candidate
>
> On 13-02-27 09:47 AM, Patrick Lam wrote:
>> (From personal experience) I think that's too hard as a summer project
>> for a student.
>>
>> On 02/27/13 08:12, Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau wrote:
>>> I was forgetting the obvious: parallelization of the the code base.
>>>
>>> Right now, Soot works in single-threaded mode. That gives a long long
>>> processing time for Spark and other phases. We should have a way to
>>> parallelize things.
>>>
>>> Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
>>> Doctorant - PhD Candidate
>>>
>>> On 13-02-14 01:36 PM, Eric Bodden wrote:
>>>> Hi all.
>>>>
>>>> Google has just put up  their webpage for the 2013 Summer of Code:
>>>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
>>>>
>>>> I would like to solicit a few ideas for projects that summer students
>>>> could work on. Please fill in your ideas here:
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/19CVbaPeqJHQm8XwSGBnK0RKn1XMRwmBoxODJIOIvD5U/edit#
>>>> Also indicate if you would be willing to supervise the project.
>>>>
>>>> My plan is to see if we get a good set of proposals and if we do then
>>>> apply for participation.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Soot-list mailing list
>>> Soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca
>>> http://mailman.cs.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/soot-list
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Soot-list mailing list
>> Soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca
>> http://mailman.cs.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/soot-list
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Soot-list mailing list
> Soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca
> http://mailman.cs.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/soot-list



More information about the Soot-list mailing list