Available Projects

The proposal application period for the 2021 HPCC Systems intern Program is now open.

The deadline date for proposal applications is Friday 19th March 2021.

Discuss your ideas with the project mentor and send your final proposal to Lorraine Chapman.

The projects listed here are available as student work experience opportunities with HPCC Systems as part of our summer intern program and Google Summer of Code. 

Find out more about the HPCC Systems Summer Intern Program.

1. Additional Embedded Languages in ECL
   Clojure, Haskell, Julia, MariaDB, MatLab, MongoDB, ODBC, Postgres, SAS, Scala, SQL, or suggest one!
2. Additional external data stores
   Ceph or suggest one!
3. Cloud specific projects
   Apply Docker image build and Kubernetes security principles
   Apply security best practices for ECL applications
   AWS Fargate and Azure container instances
   AWS FSx Lustre storage support
   Azure Arc Kubernetes management and GitOps
   Baseline test suite for an HPCC Systems cluster on Kubernetes
   General GitOps for Kubernetes deployment and management
   HPCC Systems Kubernetes Cloud Namespace hierarchy
   HPCC Systems machine learning cluster on Kubernetes 
   Ingress Configuration
   Istio and other Service Mesh with HPCC Systems cluster
   Jenkins X
   Performance test suite for an HPCC Systems cluster on Kubernetes
   Use AWS EC2 spot instances
4. DFU Spray from zip/gzip files
   Create a plugin for spraying from a ZIP/GZIP archive without decompressing the content
5. ECL Code Documentation Generator Improvements
   Make major improvements to the ECL Code Documentation Generator (ECLDoc), written in Python.
6. Implement an IOT pluggable protocol for ROXIE
   Add support for pluggable protocols currently being used in IOT projects
7. Locking engine to replace DALI - Investigative project
   Research, test and do a POC of a 3rd party inter-machine/process locking engine, for example ZooKeeper, HashiCorp's Consul or other suitable contenders.
8. Machine Learning Algorithms on the HPCC Platform
   Anomaly Detection Algorithms
   Causality and Casual Machine Learning
   Linear/Logistic Regression Enhancements
   Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) Processor
9. Provide SELinux Policies for the HPCC-Platform installation on Linux environments
   Build SELinux domains for hpccsystems-platform services.
10. Replace existing socket-based message passing interface with an open source package
    Explore if using a different message layer (open-source package, such as ZeroMQ) offers improved performance, robustness and code maintainability
11. System self health check
    Design and implement a tool to provide an overall check to everything is working as expected across components, from a button within ECL Watch
    

These projects are still under development and more details will be added soon. If you want to know more about any of these projects, view the associated JIRA issue and please contact Lorraine Chapman or the mentor of the project:

1. Implement ECL Pretty Print
2. Implement reference dafilesrv in other languages
3. Implement a Reverse activity
4. Incorporating self test code into a bundle
5. Provide test code for bundles with no self test