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On 10:29 Wed 14 Dec , Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena419@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hello all, |
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> > I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I |
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> > would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you |
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> > please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as |
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> > well as gentoo. I am interested in parallel computing, data structures , |
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> > operating system. I am well versed in C/C++. I think there might be |
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> > projects which need to be done, I would like to work on them. |
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> The only idea I can think of for parallel computing / distributed |
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> systems would be at the build level. |
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> distcc-ng, a farm of user-controlled machines that compile your code |
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> in a p2p fashion. |
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I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were |
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on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was |
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typically accessible at the time outside of universities and LANs. Could |
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be worth exploring again now that 25-100 mbps connections are becoming |
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more common. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Council Member / Sr. Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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