Re: GSoC 2017 project -- Speeding up tensor contraction in Octave

[Somesh Singh]

Hello Colin

Thanks for the reply.

Could you please help me with how to go about finding a mentor? Is there a set procedure that is needed to be followed? Who shall I pitch the idea to? Kindly let me know.

Thanks and regards.

- Somesh

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:03 AM, Colin Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:

On 28/02/17 00:58, Somesh Singh wrote:

Tensor contraction is a widely used operation that comes up quite often
when performing operations on tensors. It is widely used in many domains
such as analysis of chemical compounds. There are a lot of ongoing
efforts to speed-up tensor contraction.
Many of the softwares for numerical computation have sound
implementations of tensor contraction. In this light, I believe it will
be a good idea to have a fast implementation of tensor contraction in
Octave for muti-core systems, since tensor contraction offers a lot of
scope for parallelism. I would like to propose this as a project for
GSoC 2017 and get involved with it.
Please share your thoughts on the suggestion.

That sounds interested.  However, the challenge will be in finding a mentor.  At minimum, you'd have to demonstrate an operation that is slow and how (specifically, with code) you would speed it up.

You might also look at the existing list of project ideas:

http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas

best,
Colin