[HACKERS] [GSoC] Personal presentation and request for clarification

A group formed by me and other four MSc students is currently working on a solution for

a linear algebra approach to OLAP. We are at the same time translating the SQL language to linear

algebra operations, developing methods to automate the process, optimising the previously

implemented sparse matrix operations, and benchmarking the resultant work on different

Intel x86 and Nvidia architectures (multi-core, many-core, GPU). Future work may even include query/machine level cost prediction functionalities.

It would be really interesting for me to do a continue analysis on how the replacement of relational algebra would influence the performance and implementation complexity of each independent module and the entire system, so at least I could do benchmark tasks even if I am not accepted on GSoC.

I'm also working on a personal project of making a general benchmark script, capable of test all the combinations of N parameters, both in Serial, Shared and Distributed Memory. It main purpose is to reduce the time spent on the MSc assigned tasks. [GIT HERE]

Not referring the anxiety of joining such important project (what I think is normal), my major concern for both projects is my reduced experience in the referred microoptimizations.

This way, I feel that is important to include my previous work on this topic. It was on the simple dot product algorithm and the main cases of study was cache issues, CPU/Memory bounds,... The work is described [HERE].