Re: GSOC 2021 Idea Discussion

On 3/18/21 5:18 PM, Atharva Dubey wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am Atharva Dubey and have been using octave for a while now. A quick 
> introduction about me, technically, I am quite familiar and well versed 
> in the field of machine learning algorithms.  I am also a parallel 
> computing enthusiast and have worked OpenMP, SYCL and a little bit of 
> CUDA as well and I am proficient with C++ as well as Python.
> 
> For GSoC 2021, I propose a machine learning library with hardware 
> acceleration support, for a variety of devices, let it be AMD GPUs, 
> FPGAs ASICs etc., etc and I propose this using SYCL. I have already 
> started on it(it is not quite ready yet) and you could find it here - 
> https://github.com/AD2605/SYCML <https://github.com/AD2605/SYCML>
> 
> please let me know your feedback and whether it a good plan and how to 
> proceed with it.
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> 


Dear Atharva Dubey,

Thank you for your interest and your project suggestion.  Looking at 
your Github "SYCML" project, I do not see a clear relation to Octave. 
How does your library in earliest development stage fit in this picture?

Best wishes,
Kai