Google Summer of Code 2021

If you are interested in one of the projects below, please send an email to halide-gsoc2021-mentors@mit.edu with the name of the project in the subject line. Be sure to look at each page for specific application details.

Projects

• Performance Tracking in CI — Create a web app that integrates with our buildbot infrastructure to track the performance of many aspects of Halide over time. (Difficulty: Medium. Easy if the student is familiar with web development)

• Rewrite Rules Evaluation — Measure the impact of adding new rules to the term rewriting system in the Halide compiler. (Difficulty: Medium)

• Implementing New Applications in Halide — Expand Halide's application folder by adding new filters, deep learning architectures, and physics simulation algorithms. (Difficulty: Medium. Easy if the student is already familiar with the algorithms.)

• Halide Code Generation For More Languages — Generate headers and libraries for languages such as Swift, Rust, Julia, and .NET so we can call Halide code in these languages. (Difficulty: Medium)

• Compiler Explorer for Halide — Integrate Halide with Compiler Explorer for visualizing the code generation for Halide. (Difficulty: Hard)

• Fuzzing the Halide compiler — Add fuzzing tests (and bug fixes) for various parts of the Halide compiler. (3 project descriptions, Medium and Hard)

• A (Better) Interactive Viewer for Halide Pseudocode — Improve our ability to inspect generated Halide pseudocode as an interactive web page. (Difficulty: Medium)

• Define-your-own project (potential ideas: autoschedulers, new Python frontends, modularity through a first-class define_extern)