Il 23 mar 2016 4:36 PM, "Francesco Faccio" <
address@hidden> ha scritto:
Dear Carlo and dear all,
I would like to make a detailed scheduling of the work on project ode15s:
Before 22nd April:
-familiarize with the community (using mailing list, IRC Channel, giving my contribution to short projects)
-familiarize with Mercurial and autotools
-study of SUNDIALS library and Oct-files
22nd April - 22nd May:
-study of the existing documentation of ode15s
-comparison between ode15s and the other ODE solvers (in order to choose which part of the algorithm we can improve using numerical techniques)
-study of numerical methods for DAEs
-Keep in touch with the community and the mentor better defining all the steps we need to reach our goals
Work period
23rd May-20th June
-Start coding. Improve the algorithm.
The approach I would like to choose is the following: write unit tests, then write the code and follow the Test-Driven Development method. When a few lines of code will be written, I will write integration tests. Finally I will test manually the code. Runtime error detection methods will be applied.
If it will be possible, I will use also the tests already implemented in the Octave source.
-Set up the configuration system
-Profiling in order to optimize slower parts of the code
-Validation tests: at the end of the development I will test the order of convergence of the algorithm. I will also test the behaviour of the code with respect to some differential equations (ex. from the most regular to Van der Pol).
Mid-term evaluation
21st June - 7th August
-implement Octave interface of ode15s starting from ODE options
-Make tests to ensure the compatibility between Matlab and Octave
8th August - 23rd August
-Write the documentation and more tests
I plan to work about 40 hours a week.
In addition to this I will attend a course on Advanced Programming for Scientific Computing till the end of June.
I would really appreciate to receive some suggestions. In particular I would like to split the second part of the project in a lot of small steps (I will be able to do this once I will have a deeper knowledge of the structure of ode15s). Please tell me how to improve the scheduling for this work.
I will upload the rest of the proposal ASAP.
Thank you for your consideration. Sorry for top-posting.
Best regards,
Francesco Faccio
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Da: Carlo De Falco
Inviato: martedì 22 marzo 2016 16.11
A: Octave Maintainers List
Cc: address@hidden; Francesco Faccio; Chiara Segala; address@hidden; Schöps, Sebastian; Marco Caliari; Richard Crozier; address@hidden (address@hidden)
Oggetto: ode15s project for GSOC 2016
Dear all,
I have seen quite a few students introducing themselves on the mailing list
and declaring their interest in the project on ode15s, yet none of you has started
filling in their proposal on the GSOC website.
The deadline for the application submission is March 25, therefore I urge you all
to start filling in the draft proposal ASAP if you wish to receive feedback before
the deadline.
In particular I am really interested in seing the timeline you expect to follow in
implementing the project and the tests you expect to use to verify the correctness
of the implementation.
Good luck with your application,
c.