Title: [Oscar-devel] Google Summer of Code application
Hello Joao:
 
First of all, thank you for your interest in the OSCAR project.
 
I think your proposal is good, and is quite in-line with our project goals.  I am just a bit concerned whether the deliverables you have outlined are achieveable within the time period of the program (roughly 3 months).  Perhaps if you can let us know how much time you can dedicate to working on the project during that time period, we can give you a better estimate of what is manageable for you.
 
From reading your proposal, I have come up with a two more ideas about what you can work on:
 
1) Create OSCAR packages for all relevant bioinformatics tools that run on clusters
2) Thin-OSCAR (diskless OSCAR)
 
Please let us know if you have any other questions - and remember you need to apply through Google - they will route your application to us.
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Joao Paulo Samara
Sent: Fri 03/06/2005 4:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Oscar-devel] Google Summer of Code application

        Dear Sirs,

        I've heard of your project due to Google's Summer of Code program. I
have analyzed several mentor organizations and I feel I can contribute
most to yours. I have not applied yet, but I made a draft
according to Google's recommendation. The draft is as follows, and I
appreciate any suggestions to adapt it to your current needs.

The Summer of Code submission:

Name
    Jo�o Paulo Penteado Leite Samara

Email
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Project Title
    OSCAR core development and package maintenance/porting.

Synopsis
    To help project OSCAR towards its 5.0 release, according
to http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/summerofcode
suggestions (details below).

Deliverables
     -Incorporate a configurable LiveCD image creation,
possibly using Knoppix.
     - Create the Sun Grid Engine package.
     - Port OSCAR to other distros(Centos/FC4)
     - Add support to other processor architectures:
     (x86_64, SPARC, ALPHA).
     *-Enhance OSCAR to become a standalone, configurable distribution.

Project Details
   Besides helping the project current needs, (above) my main
Idea is transform OSCAR on a modular, configurable standalone
distribution,probably including technologies from
http://www.rocklinux.org/, http://www.t2-project.org/.
By merging these technologies, a cluster administrator
can create his own distro customizing the target
architecture(i386,x86_64 etc) and choosing additional meta-packages
(life sciences MPI applications, other scientific MPI applications)
pre-included in OSCAR as users request it.

Project Schedule
   The scope of the project will be adjusted to Google's
terms, but from my part It will certainly continue beyond Summer of
Code's deadline.

Bio
   I'm an undergraduate in electrical engineering from University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil, possibly graduating dez/2005. I am currently helping
FAPESP's (http://www.fapesp.br/english/index.php) program called
Viral Genetic Diversity Network(VGDN)
(http://www.lemb.icb.usp.br/lemb/vgdn/www/)
which aims to sequence HIV-1, HCV and RSV variants collected across 23
labs in Brazil.
I'm currently assisting the design of the main lab (LEMB) analisys
cluster HPC, a 54 cpu-diskless cluster of 2.0ghz Opterons, and adapt to
our needs, installing software as BLAST, EMBOSS, RAxML, PROML, MrBayes,
Phylip etc.I'm proficient in C and Linux systems, currently creating
Perl scripts to "glue" several internal or external applications in the
lab's work flow.

Best wishes,

--
========================================================
Joao Paulo P. L. Samara, Research Associate
========================================================
University of Sao Paulo - USP
Biomedical Sciences Institute - ICB II
Department of Microbiology
Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 1734
Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil - 05508-000
Phone: +55 11 3091-7290
FAX: +55 11 3091-7354

Mobile: +55 11 8121-4293

http://www.lemb.icb.usp.br
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