Hi,
I like to participate or contribute in this in any way possible . I am working 
as Tech architect in AMEX with 14 yrs of tech experience .

Thanks and Regards
Himanshu

> On 28-Jan-2018, at 2:11 PM, Krishna Kalyan <krishnakaly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Matthias and Nakul,
> 4 more ideas that could be included.
> 
> [Perftest]
> - Compare runtime System-ML to Julia, R, Sklearn, Spark MLLib based on data
> gen scripts.
> - Prepare report with all the information about failed jobs, performance
> information, perf info against other comparable projects/algorithms
> (plotted/in plain text in CSV, PDF or another common format)
> - Create a simple web application (Shiny / Heroku that can display these
> statistics)
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML-1451
> 
> [XGBoost]
> It would be great to have XGBoost
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML-978
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML-822
> 
> [ADAM W]
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML-2018
> fast ai library has this fix already implemented
> https://github.com/fastai/fastai/pull/46
> 
> [Straggler PRs]
> - Add unit test
> - Improve documentation
> - Add more notebooks and examples
> - Complete all easy/medium pending PRs
> - Functionalize all algorithms
> https://github.com/apache/systemml/pull/200
> https://github.com/apache/systemml/pull/589
> https://github.com/apache/systemml/pull/613
> 
> If it looks good, then I can create/ add these issues with gsoc2018 label.
> 
> Regards,
> Krishna
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> yes, but we as mentors will help out as needed, especially on the initial
>> language and compiler integration. Furthermore, it's a rather scalable
>> project in the sense that it could also accommodate multiple students. For
>> example, the different backends are fairly independent sub-projects.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Nakul Jindal <naku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is awesome!
>>> I am guessing the goal is to have this epic be a summer worth of
>>> mini-projects for a single GSoC student, isthat correct?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> just FYI: I've created https://issues.apache.org/
>>> jira/browse/SYSTEMML-2083
>>>> with the gsoc2018 label. If you have additional project ideas, please
>>> file
>>>> the respective JIRAs. Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Matthias
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> yes, that is a good idea and we should leverage this opportunity. I'm
>>>>> happy to mentor a project as well, specifically on parameter server
>>>>> architectures for distributed deep learning in SystemML.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Right now we can emulate synchronous parameter servers with parfor,
>> but
>>>>> there are other architectures like asynchronous, stale-synchronous,
>>>>> heterogeneity-aware, and decentralized, which we should support as
>> well
>>>> in
>>>>> form of a dedicated runtime infrastructure similar to local/remote
>>>> parfor.
>>>>> If done right, we should be able to leverage common primitives in
>>> parfor
>>>>> and these parameter servers.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Apart from better support for distributed deep learning, this would
>>> bring
>>>>> us much closer to the goal of a unified framework for large-scale
>>> machine
>>>>> learning as we would be the only framework that supports
>> data-parallel
>>>>> (distributed ops), task-parallel (parfor), and model-parallel
>>> (parameter
>>>>> server) execution strategies in a single system.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll create an epic with sub tasks later this week. The goal would be
>>> to
>>>>> integrate these parameter servers with the underlying data-parallel
>>>>> framework to have a common runtime for distributed operations and
>>>>> automatically support all underlying resource schedulers such as
>> YARN,
>>>>> Mesos, and Kubernetes. Since the project is relatively large, we
>> might
>>>> need
>>>>> to split it up into multiple GSoC projects along with multiple
>> mentors.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Matthias
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 1/22/2018 8:53 AM, Nakul Jindal wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Krishna,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That is a great idea. Thank you for offering to be a
>> mentor/co-mentor.
>>>>>> I suggest that you think of a list of projects that you can mentor,
>>>>>> discuss
>>>>>> them on the mailing list and we can add them as JIRAs with the
>>>> appropriate
>>>>>> tags (as required by Apache).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If there are students on this mailing list who want to suggest a
>>> topic,
>>>>>> that is very welcome too. If a mentor is willing to take it on, they
>>>> will
>>>>>> respond either here or on a JIRA.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Nakul
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:49 PM, Krishna Kalyan <
>>>> krishnakaly...@gmail.com
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>>> I was wondering if system-ml community was planning to participate
>> in
>>>>>>> GSoC
>>>>>>> this year. I had a wonderful time last year and learned a lot!.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If we could have a couple of JIRAS for GSoC 2018 it would be
>> great. I
>>>> am
>>>>>>> willing to help out as a mentor/ co-mentor if that is a bottleneck.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [1] GSoC Website (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/)
>>>>>>> [2] GSoC Time Line (https://developers.google.
>>>>>>> com/open-source/gsoc/timeline)
>>>>>>> [3] GSoC 2017 JIRA (https://issues.apache.org/
>>>> jira/browse/SYSTEMML-1451)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Krishna
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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