DragonFly BSD Digest » Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code: students, apply!

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:42:12 +0000

Now’s the time to put in your application for Summer of Code projects, if you’re a student. The application period runs until May 3rd. There’s already been some proposals on the mailing lists; now they can be put in officially.

I’ll point out the last link is from a returning GSoC student, and has a lot of detail; use that as an example if you’re thinking about your own application.

Summer of Code reminder for students: talk now

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:58:51 +0000

For anyone who is a student considering Google Summer of Code this year: this timeframe we’re in right now is listed by Google as time for “students discuss project ideas with mentoring organizations”. This is the perfect time to find out what the people in an organization are like, and get early feedback on your project ideas.

Chances are, if you’re submitting a proposal for an idea from an org’s project list, you’re one of a number of students all trying for the same thing. The best way to get accepted instead of any other applicant is to be the person they already know.

Summer of Code links for everyone

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:33:35 +0000

The DragonFly page on the Summer of Code site is set up. If you are a potential mentor that I’ve talked to before, I’ve already sent you an email with details. If you are a potential mentor I haven’t talked to, you can email me or send a request via the DragonFly page. (Google has a new ‘connections’ method for signup this year.)

If you’re an interested student, take a look at the DragonFly Projects Page. Keep in mind that your proposal does not have to be one of those ideas – new projects are always welcome, and often have the advantage of being unique instead of being one of several similar proposals. (hint, hint)

DragonFly and Google Summer of Code 2013: again!

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:05:55 +0000

We’re accepted! The application requirements, etc. will be up on the Google Summer of Code site as soon as I can fill out the forms.

Summer of Code and DragonFly as of right now

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:05:50 +0000

I’ve put in an application for DragonFly to be a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization for the 6th year in a row – we have mentors lined up, so we’ll know by the Friday after next. See my post on kernel@ for pretty much what I just said.

Summer of Code for non-students

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:13:59 +0000

Meaning, Summer of Code for the teachers, not the students. Google apparently has a grant program for academic researchers, that runs twice a year. I didn’t know this, but I bet there’s someone who is 1: in academia and 2: needs cash money that is 3: reading this.

Summer of Code ideas, please

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:50:35 +0000

If DragonFly is going to participate in Google Summer of Code for 2013, we need project ideas, and lots of them, at any size. There’s an existing project page that anyone can add to, especially if you’re a student and looking to add your ideas.

Google Summer of Code 2013 announced

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:04:25 +0000

It’s announced! If DragonFly is going to participate again for the sixth year in a row (wow!), we need mentor volunteers…

Summer of Code Doc Camp

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:58:20 +0000

Google is hosting a ‘Doc Camp’, where people get together and write documentation for open source projects. There’s a page that talks about it. Last year’s inaugural event was apparently quite successful. I haven’t been to it, but I think a day just for documentation is a good idea.

A lot of scheduler talk

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:28:23 +0000

If you ever wanted to read an extensive discussion about the scheduler, today’s your day. Mihai Carabas, who posted the details of a long discussion he had with Matthew Dillon about how the scheduler works. You may recall Mihai’s name from the very successful GSoC scheduler project that recently finished.

(look, a link to the new Mailman archive!)

DragonFly and GSoC 2012 wrapup

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:16:20 +0000

DragonFly had a successful Google Summer of Code even this year. It marks our 5th time participating, 7th if you count Google Code-In events.

Mihai Carabas worked on adding SMT/HT awareness to the DragonFly scheduler. This project was very successful. The original goal was just to take advantage of threading with the scheduler, but the benchmarks published by Mihai show in general a 5% speedup from these scheduler changes. His work has already been committed.

Vishesh Yadav implemented an inotify interface in DragonFly. inotify is an originally Linux-based system for monitoring files and directories for changes. A specific use for this is an inotify-aware locate program, so that a list of file locations can be kept ‘live’. His code for the inotify interface should be committed to DragonFly very soon.

(This was written in part for Google to use on their Open Source Blog.)

Summer of Code, week something

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:25:10 +0000

I was on the road and missed last week’s summaries for Summer of Code, and we’re almost at the end of the session, so I’ll just link to the most recent items from Mihai Carabas (there’s a lot there!), Vishesh Yadav, and Ivan Freitas.

Summer of Code Scheduler benchmarks

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:04:47 +0000

Mihai Carabas has posted some more results from an 8-core system showing his efforts to make the scheduler multi-threading aware. The results are generally a 5% speed gain, which I think matches previous benchmarks on machines with less processors.

Summer of Code and DragonFly, week 8

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0000

I hope it’s week 8. Anyway here’s the reports from Mihai Carabas, Vishesh Yadav, and Ivan Sichmann Freitas.

Google Summer of Code midterms: everyone passes

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:46:42 +0000

At least for DragonFly, every current participant in Google Summer of Code passed the midterm evaluation. Yay!

Summer of Code status, week 7

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:28:41 +0000

Here’s the regular status updates for Mihai Carabas (scheduler) and Vishesh Yadav (inotify). ~~I don’t have the update from Ivan Sichmann Freitas yet.~~ Here’s Ivan Sichmann Freitas.

GSoC updates, week 6

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:18:02 +0000

The usual weekly updates from Mihai Carabas, Vishesh Yadav, and Ivan Sichmann Freitas. Mihai has some interesting bugs found this past week by running his code on Matt Dillon’s 48-core system.

Midterms coming up for GSoC

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:11:14 +0000

Attention students and mentors: the Summer of Code midterms open up on July 9th. This means students fill out an evaluation, and mentors also fill out an evaluation. Don’t forget, because completed evals from mentor and student both are necessary for a project to continue being funded.

Summer of Code status week 5

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:26:05 +0000

This is a report for last week’s work, so this is week 6 we are in now, and the reports are week 5′s status. So:

Scheduler changes you can try yourself

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:34:34 +0000

If you have an Intel processor with multiple cores and hyperthreading support, you can compile a new kernel and try out Mihia Carabas’s GSoC work already; he’s created a test using the OpenSSL test case to time scheduling performance vs. number of threads.