Re: GSoC 2017 project -- Speeding up tensor contraction in Octave

[Colin Macdonald]

On 28/02/17 00:58, Somesh Singh wrote:
> Tensor contraction is a widely used operation that comes up quite often
> when performing operations on tensors. It is widely used in many domains
> such as analysis of chemical compounds. There are a lot of ongoing
> efforts to speed-up tensor contraction.
> Many of the softwares for numerical computation have sound
> implementations of tensor contraction. In this light, I believe it will
> be a good idea to have a fast implementation of tensor contraction in
> Octave for muti-core systems, since tensor contraction offers a lot of
> scope for parallelism. I would like to propose this as a project for
> GSoC 2017 and get involved with it.
> Please share your thoughts on the suggestion.

That sounds interested.  However, the challenge will be in finding a 
mentor.  At minimum, you'd have to demonstrate an operation that is slow 
and how (specifically, with code) you would speed it up.

You might also look at the existing list of project ideas:

http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas

best,
Colin