MMTk generally has projects suitable for research students who are interested in getting involved in the project. We try to label suitable issues accordingly.
Ad Hoc Projects
If you’re interested in doing a project you’re always welcome (encouraged!) to reach out via Zulip at any time.
OSPP 2023 Projects
In 2023, we participated in the Open Source Promotion Program (OSPP) hosted by the Institute of Software China Academy of Science (ISCAS) and the OpenEuler community. Two students participated in projects published by us.
- Haohang Shi: Use the new weak reference processing API for the JikesRVM binding, mentored by Kunshan Wang.
- Zheyuan Chen: Supporting ARMv8, mentored by Zixian Cai.
Summer Projects
Each (southern) summer we host a number of summer research internships for undergraduates. These run for about 10-12 weeks and are based at ANU, but open to anyone. We’d like to expand this project to the northern hemisphere, and in the northern summer of 2021, we’ll be inviting students to participate in projects remotely.
If you’re interested in a summer project, please take a look at the projects currently listed, and reach out to us on Zulip, letting us know what your interest is and what your background is. We’re not confined to the projects listed as issues on github, so if you have something specific that you think would help advance MMTk and make a good research project, please let us know.
2022 Projects
In 2022 we hosted two undergraduate research projects. The end of project talks are listed below.
Micah Sinclair | Investigating mimalloc Behaviour as the Number of Mutator Threads Increases
Claire Huang | Debugging GC Performance Problems with eBPF Tools
Summer 2021 Projects
In the southern summer of 2020-2021, we had four summer undergraduate research interns. Their end of project talks are listed below (about five minutes each).
Angus Atkinson | MMTk Ruby Binding
Rouane Bannister | MMTk Tutorial
Paige Reeves | MallocMS
Kunal Sareen | A Generalized Framework for GC Analysis
