From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RdaVx-0004gy-P9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:44:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0427F21C140; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B6621C0B7 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (68-115-81-220.dhcp.roch.mn.charter.com [68.115.81.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7690C1B4029 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:43:23 -0600 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo Message-ID: <20111222044323.GA18095@comet.roc.mn.charter.com> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 967ed24c-0aad-4d7f-af5b-e84a1d65f084 X-Archives-Hash: 2579fd4f208d89ec966427aeb1d2725e --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10:29 Wed 14 Dec , Alec Warner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Gaurav Saxena w= rote: > > Hello all, > > I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gento= o. I > > would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could = you > > please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as > > well as gentoo. I am interested in parallel computing, data structures , > > operating system. I am well versed in C/C++. I think=A0 there might be > > projects which need to be done, I would like to work on them. >=20 > The only idea I can think of for parallel computing / distributed > systems would be at the build level. >=20 > distcc-ng, a farm of user-controlled machines that compile your code > in a p2p fashion. I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were=20 on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was=20 typically accessible at the time outside of universities and LANs. Could=20 be worth exploring again now that 25-100 mbps connections are becoming=20 more common. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk7ytWsACgkQXVaO67S1rtt4zACePKIput8NzXVF4p65Wir5SJcP 7AAAoLIhgn5pbIARWiXIVkxYZB1Mgy9Z =7pNa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW--