Hi,
I am very pleased to announce that I have been selected for the 2014 edition of
SOCIS. ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the
European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various
space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or
mentors from the participating projects.
For the next 3 month I will work for the DUNE framework. The Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment (DUNE) is a modular toolbox for solving partial differential equations with grid-based methods. It supports the easy implementation of methods like Finite Elements, Finite Volumes and also Finite Differences.
My project is to add thread support to parallel index sets (see project 1). In parallel scientific computing the entries of containers can be distinguished in entries that never get communicated and entries that do get exchanged with other cores/processors.
In the module dune-common there is an abstraction for this that allows users to write parallel algorithms without having to deal with MPI or other parallel mode. Currently only MPI is supported. The idea of this project is to support also thread parallelism and optimally a hybrid approach of both (MPI and threads).
The mentors of the project are Dr. Markus Blatt and Prof. Christian Engwer.
Stay tuned!
Marco.