From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1328 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2012 04:11:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 1319 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Mar 2012 04:11:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail1.engr.ucsb.edu (HELO mx1.engr.ucsb.edu) (128.111.53.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:11:07 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.138] (ip184-187-177-169.sb.sd.cox.net [184.187.177.169]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.engr.ucsb.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2S4B18p019587 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:11:07 -0700 Message-ID: <4F728F55.2010404@cs.ucsb.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:11:00 -0000 From: Varad Deshmukh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Contributing to GSL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-q1/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 Hi, I am Varad Deshmukh, a Master's student at UCSB majoring in Computer Science. My research interests are in Scientific Computing and HPC, and I am interested in contributing to GSL. I recently took up a course in numerical simulation and I figured a good way to start would be looking into ODE solvers. The TODO list mentions work to be done for adding other stepper methods - especially the BDF methods for DAE's implemented in DASSL and DASPK. Could you please elaborate more on which new methods you want to focus on? I have been reading the code for the Runge-Kutta methods - the driver, evolve and control formats - and have a rough idea about the design. It would be great if I could get some help regarding GSL development in general and ode-initval2 in particular. If you feel that I should work with smaller bugs and fix them before going into a new implementation, I would like to hear suggestions. Thank you, Varad.