Re: Student Project Idea

[Peter Chacko <peterchacko35@gmail.com>]

As a student it helps if you come out of the inhibition that only
kernel level projects are great and other disciplines don't worth a
dime for a fresh grad. Kernel development is generally meant for
experienced developers who already did non-kernel, system level
development for some time. There are many areas which are less
glamorous, but need the application of  heavy computer science, and
un-explored  for which  a brilliant grad  student can contribute to.

Indicative list is  that i can think of off-hand is ,

1) development of multi-core aware , concurrent data structures and
algorithms that manipulate on them(  which don't need locking for
concurrency.(I mean shared-nothing, but concurrent)

2) study of performance on all system calls in a non-virtualized and
virtualized systems, as it relates to storage and network IO.

3) Addition of an integrated data compression/decompression as part of
 Disk IO when  VM images are written to disk. And you can also think
of data de-dpulication across VM images.

4)  ....and all other topics that others suggest.

A  one time kernel developer(Aix/Solaris/Windows/Linux) .


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Satyam Shekhar<satyamshekhar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a final year undergrad student at the Indian Institute of
> Technology, Guwahati, India. I have my B.Tech project starting this
> semester. I have a keen interest in kernel development and am looking
> for topics for the project.
>
> I would be highly grateful if you could give me some suggestions or
> ideas to work on in this regard.
>
> Regards
> Satyam Shekhar
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