Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:16:44 -0500 From: Erik Greenwald <erik@math.smsu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: projects? Message-ID: <20020620031644.GA21643@math.smsu.edu>
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"David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> said:
> I have a graduate student who cam to me about a masters project
> involving
> some work with FreeBSD. He has currently zero knowledge of the
> Kernel, and
> is looking to change that, but he needs ideas. His previous areas of
> interest are primarily focused on networking; RED/GRED/ECN, routing,
> etc.
interesting stuff
> He is however "quite sick" of networking, and was originally looking
> at
> the VM code as a potential area (he is gaining an interest in
> parallelization and synchronization). I suggested this may be too
> ambitious for someone with zero previous exposure to the kernel (what
> do others think?) As alternate projects I suggested:
I've found the fbsd kernel to be pretty clean, but I'm not kernel guru
:D I had no problem jumping into driver stuff, the only thing slowing me
down is trying to get a listening/accepting socket inside of the kernel
>
> Memory Compaction: compacting physical memory, maintaining coloring
> VFS: nullfs, unionfs, etc...
> OpenAFS: Speaks for itself.
>
> What do people here think? Anyone have other ideas that I can forward
> on?
> He is eager to work with others and seek guidance; some of which I can
> provide (how much depends on the project of course ;).
>
> (He is looking to spend 2 hours a day for roughly 6 months on this
> project;
> ideally he would want a project where he can gather data on the
> results, most
> of my projects do not fall into that category).
>
what about distributed computing? linux has been making a lot of noise
with beowulf and mosix stuff, it's an interesting concept with a lot of
theoretical work behind it, but it seems to be "coming of age" with
people looking to move away from expensive proprietary mainframes? fbsd
has good computational abilities, excellent networking abilities, and
runs well on commodity hardware, this might be a good avenue to use his
network expertise, expose him to kernel/system issues, and produce
something of utility that can get some use as well as something he can
show prospective employers? :)
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