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<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Hi everyone,
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<div>Week 3 has concluded, and this is my report for this week.</div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">1) What did I get done this week?<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Upon discussion with the mentors, we have decided to explore alternative designs to using Segment library as intermediate output buffer. Specifically, there are two designs in mind, one which simply increases the size
of the buffer but does sequential I/O to fill and output from the buffer with intermediate parallel computation, and a more complicated one which tries to eliminate having the threads to wait for the I/O.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">2) What do I plan on doing next week?</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I plan to finalize the design by this week. [1]<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">3) Am I blocked on anything?<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">No, it has been good so far.</p>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">[1] <a href="https://github.com/aaronsms/grass" id="LPlnk566505">
https://github.com/aaronsms/grass</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Warmest regards,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Aaron</p>
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