[Pulp-dev] Theme of the bachelor thesis

Thu Sep 20 21:14:09 UTC 2018

I’m interested to know more about this versioning/branching proposal and
its goals. I assume this would be to explore changing Pulp 3 to use a
non-linear branching model? Would the goal be to contribute this model to
Pulp 3 codebase in the near term (like before the MVP)? I guess my concern
would be that I don’t think there is enough of a need nor the time to
properly vet it before the MVP. I don’t think we can guarantee that a
branching proposal would result in a change to Pulp 3 in the near term, and
switching the data model post-MVP is potentially risky and likely backwards
incompatible, so adoption later would be unlikely also.

I also want to point out that we explored another versioning model before
we went with our current design. We did some performance analysis and found
that the model wasn’t optimized for the most common use cases in Pulp.
Here’s the discussion in case you’re interested:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/pulp-dev/2017-December/msg00075.html

David

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:01 AM Robin Chan <rchan at redhat.com> wrote:

> Having only this exposure to the bachelor thesis, I've just been reading
> for my own learning.
>
> I'll only share that I would invite Vlada to perhaps write a blog post
> with some summary type information targetting newcomers with an
> understanding of git. Such a post might be a way to understand Pulp by
> allowing them to relate existing understanding to pulp a little quicker.
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Milan Kovacik <mkovacik at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> we've been discussing my proposal with Vlada recently and he's about to
>> commit officially to it at the school.
>> I'd like to poke for feedback esp. if there are concerns/doubts about the
>> sanity of my proposal.
>> Encouraging comments are of course welcome too ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> milan
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:25 AM Milan Kovacik <mkovacik at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose a comparison of Git versioning model to Pulp3
>>> versioning (and branching) model.
>>> The textual part would briefly introduce both Git and Pulp, with focus
>>> on their respective usecases, trying to identify overlapping scenarios.
>>> Next it would in detail examine the versioning models of both Git and
>>> Pulp3.
>>> The main matter would compare implementation of Git versioning model in
>>> Pulp3 (as e.g a fork) to the current versioning model.
>>> The textual part would conclude with advantages and disadvantages of
>>> both versioning models, reiterating over the usecases, comparing
>>> performance (storage and time) of both the implementations.
>>>
>>> I believe this would have a direct practical impact on Pulp3, affecting
>>> feature planning and if feasible, providing an alternative versioning
>>> implementation[1][2].
>>>
>>> --
>>> milan
>>>
>>> PS: I'm volunteering to oversee the thesis on the project part
>>>
>>> [1] https://pulp.plan.io/issues/3360
>>> [2] https://pulp.plan.io/issues/3842
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:16 PM, Austin Macdonald <austin at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How about reproducibility? Bihan and I presented on this topic at scipy
>>>> but there is a lot left to say/research.
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5czGgUG0oXA
>>>>
>>>> In the scientific community, reproducibility is a hot topic (I bet grad
>>>> schools would love this!), and the computational aspect of it has been
>>>> under-emphasized in the existing literature. Our talk focused on the
>>>> fundamental problems of environmental reproducibility and how to use Pulp
>>>> to solve them. Especially since the scope was narrow, we barely scratched
>>>> the surface. There a ton of potential angles; some ideas are that you could
>>>> catalog and compare technologies or discuss academic vs industry use cases
>>>> and trends.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 5:01 AM Vladimir Dusek <vdusek at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't ask you for a specific assignment, we'll set up it with Milan
>>>>> later. I only need some idea on a topic.
>>>>>
>>>>> Scope of the work should be 40-50 standard pages. Additional
>>>>> istructions could be find here -
>>>>> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/info/szz/pokyny_bp.php.en#pozadavky. However
>>>>> I don't think it's neccessary for you to know them.
>>>>>
>>>>> All bachelor theses from our university last year could be find here -
>>>>> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/study/DP/BP.php.en. I presume most of them
>>>>> are written in Czech but there are abstracts in English which might be
>>>>> useful for inspiration.
>>>>>
>>>>> Random abstracts:
>>>>>
>>>>> Alias Analysis in C Compiler
>>>>> -------------------------------------
>>>>> This thesis is dedicated to the problem of alias analysis and
>>>>> possibilities of its improvement in the LLVM framework. The goal of this
>>>>> thesis is to improve the accuracy, which was achieved by extending the
>>>>> existing implementation of Andresen algorithm to be field sensitive. The
>>>>> terms related to alias analysis and algorithms of the alias analysis
>>>>> available in LLVM are explained. These algorithms are compared according to
>>>>> their base idea, features, and limitations. The implementation of the field
>>>>> sensitivity has been tested using compiler test suites. Its impact on
>>>>> program compilation speed and performance has been analyzed. The measured
>>>>> results show an increase in the accuracy of alias analysis in the LLVM
>>>>> framework.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reinforcement Learning for Starcraft Game Playing
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> This work focuses on methods of machine learning for playing real-time
>>>>> strategy games. The thesis applies mainly methods of Q-learning based on
>>>>> reinforcement learning. The practical part of this work is implementing an
>>>>> agent for playing Starcraft II. Mine solution is based on 4 simple
>>>>> networks, that are colaborating together. Each of the network also teaches
>>>>> itself how to process all given actions optimally. Analysis of the system
>>>>> is based on experiments and statistics from played games.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:27 PM Robin Chan <rchan at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Vladimir,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not familiar with what types of topics are appropriate for this
>>>>>> type of project - could you share some criteria and examples of what makes
>>>>>> a good topic?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Robin
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Vladimir Dusek <vdusek at redhat.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi team,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> since September I'm in the third grade of bachelor studies and it
>>>>>>> means that I'm going to write a bachelor thesis. I haven't selected a topic
>>>>>>> yet and if it'll be possible I'd like to work on something that is relevant
>>>>>>> to Pulp. Do you have any idea?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you guys,
>>>>>>> Vlada
>>>>>>>
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