Rust
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Implement a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Mechanism in Rust
Read the Casper FFG paper (Buterin + Griffith, 2017) and design a simplified PoS implementation in Rust: 21 validators, 32-slot epochs, two-phase finality (justify, then finaliz…
- Consensus Algorithms
- Blockchain Protocols
- Rust
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Tune a Multicore Pipeline with NUMA-Aware Sharding
Receive the current worker (Rust, around 8,000 lines, uses rayon for its parallelism), the host (2-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 64 cores total, 384GB DDR5), and a benchmark query workl…
- Parallel Performance
- Numa
- Rust
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - DesignIntermediateNew
Add Profile-Guided Optimization to a Production JavaScript Bundler
Design and implement a profile-guided optimization workflow for the bundler using Rust's LLVM-based PGO: an instrumented build, a training run over the eight-project benchmark c…
- Profile Guided Optimization
- Llvm
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Build and Evaluate an LSM-Tree Storage Engine in Rust
Your analysis task is to complete the engine and produce an evidence-backed comparison of the two compaction strategies. Start from the 'starter-engine' Rust module and finish t…
- Lsm Tree
- Storage Engine
- Rust
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Design an End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Protocol for Clinicians
Using the Vireo current-architecture case file and the Signal protocol specifications listed in provided materials, design an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol that covers…
- Applied Cryptography
- Protocol Design
- Rust
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Index a Reference Genome with a Suffix Array in Rust
Using the reference-genome FASTA in the provided materials, build an in-memory suffix array (DC3 or SA-IS construction) over the 4-letter DNA alphabet in Rust, then implement co…
- Suffix Arrays
- String Algorithms
- Rust
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design Error Recovery for a Friendly Compiler
Read the existing parser (recursive-descent, in Rust). Design and implement a panic-mode error recovery strategy with synchronization tokens (statement boundary, end of block, s…
- Error Recovery
- Recursive Descent Parsing
- Diagnostic Design
Compiler Construction - CodeSeniorNew
Implement Threshold Signatures for a Multi-Sig Custody Service
Read the FROST IETF draft (draft-irtf-cfrg-frost) and the underlying Schnorr signature scheme on the secp256k1 curve. Implement the FROST distributed key generation (DKG) and 3-…
- Applied Cryptography
- Threshold Signatures
- Rust
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