Develop a new bot framework (may be interwiki processing to start with) for high performance GPU cluster (nvidia or AMD) similar to what boinc based projects does. nvdia is more popular while AMD has more cores for the same price
:) Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and lines to go before I press sleep completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]> > wrote: > This term I'm taking a course in high-performance computing > <http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall10/G22.2945-001/index.html>, and I have > to pick a topic for a final project. According to the assignment > <http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall10/G22.2945-001/final-project.pdf>, > "The only real requirement is that it be something in parallel." In > the class, we covered > > * Microoptimization of single-threaded code (efficient use of CPU cache, > etc.) > * Multithreaded programming using OpenMP > * GPU programming using OpenCL > > and will probably briefly cover distributed computing over multiple > machines with MPI. I will have access to a high-performance cluster > at NYU, including lots of CPU nodes and some high-end GPUs. Unlike > most of the other people in the class, I don't have any interesting > science projects I'm working on, so something useful to > MediaWiki/Wikimedia/Wikipedia is my first thought. If anyone has any > suggestions, please share. (If you have non-Wikimedia-related ones, > I'd also be interested in hearing about them offlist.) They shouldn't > be too ambitious, since I have to finish them in about a month, while > doing work for three other courses and a bunch of other stuff. > > My first thought was to write a GPU program to crack MediaWiki > password hashes as quickly as possible, then use what we've studied in > class about GPU architecture to design a hash function that would be > as slow as possible to crack on a GPU relative to its PHP execution > speed, as Tim suggested a while back. However, maybe there's > something more interesting I could do. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
