Student Project Idea

Student Project Idea

[Satyam Shekhar]

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

Re: Student Project Idea

[Peter Chacko]

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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Re: Student Project Idea

[James Morris]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Satyam Shekhar 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.

Get involved in the Kernel Newbies project:
http://kernelnewbies.org/

There's more than enough information and support there to help you get 
started and find something interesting to work on.

Kernel hacking is where it's at, don't listen to naysayers :-)

Here's some slides from a talk I gave on this topic at foss.in a couple of 
years back:

http://namei.org/presentations/fossin2007-kernel-hacking.pdf


- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

Re: Student Project Idea

[Satyam Shekhar]

Thanks for replying.

> 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.

Thats not why I want to get into kernel projects. I like the area and will
enjoy my project if it is something I like. I have worked on developing
PINTOS as a part of my course work, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

> Get involved in the Kernel Newbies project:
> http://kernelnewbies.org/
>
> There's more than enough information and support there to help you get
> started and find something interesting to work on.
>
> Kernel hacking is where it's at, don't listen to naysayers :-)
>
> Here's some slides from a talk I gave on this topic at foss.in a couple of
> years back:
>
> http://namei.org/presentations/fossin2007-kernel-hacking.pdf

Thanks. :)