Interested Candidate for 'Fast Linear Algebra over Extension Fields' under GSOC

[Shubham Chaurasia]

Hello Sir

I am a Computer Science student(Bachelor Of Engineering,3^rd year).

I liked the idea of  ’Fast Linear Algebra over Extension Fields’ as I always like to implement mathematics through my programs.

C++ is my favorite programming language and I am habitual of using different libraries.

I know the concept of Matrix-Matrix multiplication, Gauss  Elimination and also Toom-Cook algorithm (Karatsuba's algorithm is a special case), Strassen's algorithm  for matrix multiplication.

All the above algorithms, I studied in 4^th semester of my engineering and hence I am quite familiar with them.

And quickly I will learn to use FFLAS-FFPACK library.

Kindly suggest me what more efforts I have to put in and guide me according to that.

Thanking You.

Yours Truly.

Shubham Chaurasia.

[Burcin Erocal]

Hi Shubham,

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:38:26 +0530
Shubham Chaurasia <shubh.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a Computer Science student(Bachelor Of Engineering,3rd year).
>
> I liked the idea of ’Fast Linear Algebra over Extension Fields’ as I
> always like to implement mathematics through my programs.
>
> C++ is my favorite programming language and I am habitual of using
> different libraries.

Can you give examples of some projects you have worked on and
libraries you are familiar with?

> I know the concept of Matrix-Matrix multiplication, Gauss
> Elimination and also Toom-Cook algorithm (Karatsuba's algorithm is a
> special case), Strassen's algorithm for matrix multiplication.
>
> All the above algorithms, I studied in 4th semester of my engineering
> and hence I am quite familiar with them.

Sounds great! We were thinking that these are not a part of the
standard curricula in many universities. Where are you studying?

> And quickly I will learn to use FFLAS-FFPACK library.
>
> Kindly suggest me what more efforts I have to put in and guide me
> according to that.

See the list archives for Martin's suggestion for a small project you
can work on, so that we have a code sample to base our decisions on.
In particular:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/lela-users/bMtLnFWf2wc/discussion

Feel free to ask if you get stuck anywhere.


Apart from this, we will have to think about a plan with milestones
covering the whole GSoC period. We would be happy to help out with this
step of the proposal.


Cheers,
Burcin