GSoC2011

Google Summer of Code 2011

This page lists intial ideas about possible topics for Google Summer of Code, if Yade applies for that.

Infrastructure

• Packaging and porting (rpm packages, Windows build, buildbots)
• Improve the build system ()

Correctness and performance

• Grid collider, including sub-domains
• Multi-core optimizations
• Testing suite for contact laws (incl. dissipated energy, cyclic loading)

UI

• Integration with paraview (streaming data during the simulation? Python scripts for loading all simulation data at once)
• Ssh server (adapted shellinabox) to connect to the instance, with ipython inside.
• Make SnapshotEngine safe; create videos including 3d (loaded from pdf/png) and matplotlib plots in one figure; make yade.plot use numpy.array, use simple expressions in plot specifications; off-screen rendering (with either qglviewer or vtk) for batch simulations.

Functionality

• Topology information for single-multi and multi-multi interactions (continuous surfaces, volumetric interactions of tetrahedra meshes and such)
• Define local coordinates for all interactions