Final year project in distributed computing

[munisgtm]

Hi

I'm a computer engineering student and i have to submit a final year project proposal next month, well I'm interested in doing something in Distributed computing such as making a small cluster and may be a bit of grid computing as well , but problem my university requires having hardware as part of the FYP ,i just can't think of linking up clusters or distrubted computing and hardware such as FPGAs (which I'm familiar with). Any ideas and links will appreciated extremely.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ken g6]

There was once a thread on another forum about sieving or factoring for prime search efforts. It looks like the original poster gave up on sieving, but at least factoring looks plausible.

If you want to learn about the BSGS algorithm mentioned in the thread, which supposedly wouldn't work well on FPGAs at the time, here's that thread.

 

[munisgtm]

Thanks Ken g6!

 

[Philippart]

you could also use wikipedia to find an unproven mathematical conjecture and test it for huge n values. The project doesn't make any real sense from a maths point of view, (because you can't prove for instance the collatz conjecture for every positive integer, you can only test huge numbers...) but it will be great for computer science.

EDIT: the advantage of such conjectures are that they are often easy to program