Welcome!! On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Nikolai Sakharnykh <nsakharn...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I’m sorry for some delay with my introduction, have been swamped with > other projects recently ☺ > > Having worked at NVIDIA for around 8 years I have seen GPUs to evolve from > specialized graphics processors to general purpose computing machines that > can tackle any problem in the world (as long as you can extract enough > parallelism ☺). My area of expertise as an engineer changed as well from > games and visual effects to high-performance computing and graph analytics. > > I must say that I’m relatively new to machine learning but it is a very > exciting and quickly evolving field and I’d like to share my knowledge and > skills with the community. I’m honored and very happy to be part of this > group and looking forward to making Apache Mahout work efficiently on GPUs! > > Nikolay. > > From: Peng Zhang [mailto:pzhang.x...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 4:31 AM > To: Nikolai Sakharnykh <nsakharn...@nvidia.com>; d...@mahout.apache.org; > user@mahout.apache.org > Subject: Re: Welcome New Committer Nikolay Sakharnykh > > Welcome Nikolay. > > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 at 12:17 Andrew Musselman <a...@apache.org<mailto:akm@ > apache.org>> wrote: > The Apache Mahout PMC is pleased to announce that we have asked Nikolay > Sakharnykh to become a committer and he has accepted. His contribution of > an initial set of CUDA bindings into the project are good progress toward > our goal of simplifying matrix math at scale. > > Being a committer allows you to contribute more easily to the project, > since in addition to posting pull requests and patches you're also granted > write access to the code repository; which in turn means you can review and > accept community contributions, and help others pitch in. > > Nikolay, we're looking forward to working with you in the future; welcome! > It is customary for new committers to introduce themselves with a few words > :) > > Best > Andrew > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------------- > This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and > may contain > confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution > is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the > sender by > reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------------- >
