Re: [boost] GSoC

Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC
From: Utsav Tiwary (utsav.tiwary2011_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-02 10:08:38

Thankyou for showing interest in the idea Mr. Ahnert. I would like to know
what pre-requisite knowledge do you expect any candidate to have prior to
starting to work on this project ?

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Karsten Ahnert <
karsten.ahnert_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 02/02/2014 12:00 PM, Christopher Kormanyos wrote:
> >> And we also would like to mentor a GSOC project about implicit
> >> methods in odeint. There are extremely important to solve PDEs.
> >
> > * Is the idea ripe enough for formulation?
>
> Yes, we had several GSOC project proposals about implicit ODE solvers
> last year but none of them had been accepted. Is this a problem for
> applications this year?
>
> > * Is there a committed mentor?
> >
> > Might the potential mentor formally add the project to the list here:
> >
> > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014
>
> I would volunteer to mentor this project. Of course, I will add the
> description to the ideas page.
>
>
>
> > On Saturday, February 1, 2014 9:31 PM, Larry Evans <
> cppljevans_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > On 02/01/14 13:19, Karsten Ahnert wrote:
> >> On 02/01/2014 03:47 PM, Utsav Tiwary wrote:
> >>> Does it involve the use of parallel programming ? If not, is doing it a
> >>> good idea ?
> >>
> >> There was a GSOC last year about parallelization of odeint with MPI and
> >> OpenMP [1]. I think it was successful, although the code has not yet
> >> been merged into the odeint trunk. Parallelization with GPUs already
> >> works with the help of Thrust, VexCL or ViennaCL.
> >>
> >> odeint is a library devoted to solve the initial value problem of ODEs.
> >> I think building shooting methods for boundary value problems on top of
> >> odeint would be a good idea. And we also would like to mentor a GSOC
> >> project about implicit methods in odeint. There are extremely important
> >> to solve PDEs.
> >>
> > Back in June, 2011, petros posted a question to the user's list
> > about multi-array and pdes:
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/68017
> >
> > Later, he posted a question about rotating the arrays axes:
> >
> >
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/68718/match=multi_array+rotated+views
> >
> > to help solve a pde using ADI (Alternating Direction Implicit):
> >
> >   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/71096
> >
> > In response, I prototyped a method using ADI and mentioned it
> > here:
> >
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/71047
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > -regards,
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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