It is time to announce the participants for in the STE||AR Group’s 2021 Google Summer of Code! We are very proud to announce the names of the 2 students this year who will be funded by Google to work on projects for our group.
These recipients represent the very best of the many excellent proposals that we had to choose from. For those unfamiliar with the program, the Google Summer of Code brings together ambitious students from around the world with open source developers by giving each mentoring organization funds to hire a set number of participants. Students then write proposals, which they submit to a mentoring organization, in hopes of having their work funded.
Below are the students who will be working with the STE||AR Group this summer listed with their mentors and their proposal abstracts.
Participant:
Akhil J Nair, Army Institute Of Technology ( Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Mentors:
Giannis Gonidelis
Hartmut Kaiser
Project: Adapting algorithms to C++ 20 and Ranges TS
I’m Akhil J Nair, a third year undergrad studying computer engineering at AIT, Pune. I’ll be working with the STE||AR group this summer, focusing on the algorithms part of HPX, working on tasks such as adapting the parallel algorithms to C++ 20, adding range overloads, sentinel overloads etc. The algorithms would be adapted to use the tag_invoke customization point mechanism and the C++ 20 overloads will be added according to the C++ 20 Standard. The ranges overloads will also be added as proposed in the C++ extensions to ranges. Adding sentinel overloads and separating the segmented algorithms for the few remaining algorithms will also be done. I’m hoping this would serve as an entry point for me to HPX and the wider world of HPC in general and I look forward to contributing and learning a lot over the coming months.
Participant:
Srinivas Yadav, Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
Mentors:
Nikunj Gupta
Patrick Diehl
Project: Add vectorization to par_unseq implementations of Parallel Algorithms
I am Srinivas Yadav currently pursuing my Bachelors in Computer Science at KMIT, Hyderabad, India. I will be working with STE | | AR group for HPX this summer in the area of vectorization for parallel algorithms. Current hpx parallel algorithms do not support vectorization. Vectorization allows the algorithms to use the cpu vector registers and hence performance may be improved by utilising most of the cpu resources and allows us to exploit another level of parallelism. This project aims to implement the support for parallel algorithms with explicit vectorization with new `simd` execution policy by using the c++ experimental simd extensions. I hope contributing to HPX would serve me as a stepping stone to the world of HPC and I am looking forward to learning and contributing more over the coming months.