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title = "Undergraduate Research Opportunities"
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date = 2018-02-25T08:41:21-05:00
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I'm looking for a few good undergraduate students! Please contact me if you're interested in any of the tasks on this page.
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More significant engagement with masters or doctoral students on any of these topics is also welcome.
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*(Last updated Feb 25, 2018)*
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## System Characterization
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I have written an automatic system characterization performance tool that needs some more love. Some software-engineering opportunities
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* Generating [rust](https://www.rust-lang.org) bindings for useful libraries (CUDA, hwloc)
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* Moving parts of the application over to rust
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* Changing the tool better handle the existence of only some of the libraries it uses.
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Some more researchy tasks:
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* Adding persistent storage discovery and performance characterization
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* Adding network storage discovery and performation characterization (MPI, RPC, and so on)
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* Adding communication collective performation characterization (MPI / NCCL)
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## Application Characterization
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I have written a heterogeneous application profiling tool. It needs to be better.
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* Trace application disk I/O
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* Extending the tool to work with networked applications
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* Trace application network requests (MPI or otherwise)
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* Visualization of parallel traces
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* Techniques for replaying application profiles / rescheduling computation and communication
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## Automatic Architecture Determination
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I am investigating using the tools above to automatically propose architectures fitted to applications of interest. I need some help with
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* Performance estimation for GPU kernels
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* Architecture generation as a constrained optimization problem
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