[llvm-dev] GSoC 2017

[Tobias Grosser via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017, at 08:24 AM, Nandini Singhal wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> My name is Nandini, and I'm currently a graduate student studying
> computer
> science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. I have very much
> been interested in compilers, especially static code analysis and have
> undertaken the course offered for compiler optimizations here by
> Ramakrishna Sir. As a part of this course, I have been introduced to
> polyhedral compilation and I am excited to learn about dependence
> analysis
> and affine scheduling.
> 
> I know Tobias Sir since last year when I worked on trying to improve the
> RegionInfo Pass in LLVM. Because of his esteemed guidance, I was
> fortunate
> enough to get an opportunity to attend the LLVM Developer's Meeting in
> 2016, for presenting a poster. Since then, I've been really fascinated by
> Polly/LLVM and I would like to contribute towards its development through
> GSoC.
> 
> Through this mail, I'd like to express my interest in sending an
> application for the GSoC '17, and I'm looking for possibilities to do a
> Polly/LLVM-related project. I would like to mention that I do not have
> any
> other commitments for this summer and if my application is accepted, I
> would be willing to work full time on it.
> 
> I would be very much grateful if you would suggest me some of the open
> problems for a valuable proposal.

Hi Nandini,

thanks a lot for expressing your interest and sorry for the long delay.
Live is a nightmare here in terms of workload. :( Hope you are still
motivated to push this forward.

I believe it would be great to use your work on RegionInfo to push
forward the integration of Polly with LLVM. Faster region detection is
an exciting topic which combines well with a better integration of Polly
and the new LLVM pass manager. This topic has also a nice mix of
theoretical and engineering problems.

Best,
Tobias