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://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 <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
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 Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l