Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist <at> gmail.com> writes:
To clarify, the subject needs to 1) be reasonably
doable in a short
timeframe, 2) not build on top of something that's already too
optimized. It should probably either be a new project; or an effort
to parallelize something that already exists, isn't parallel yet, and
isn't too complicated. So far I have the password-cracking thing,
maybe dbzip2, and maybe some unspecified thing involving dumps.
Some PageRank-like metric to approximate Wikipedia article importance/quality?
Parallelizing eigenvalue calculations has a rich literature.