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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 - CodeExpertNew
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 - CodeAdvancedNew
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 - CodeExpertNew
Implement an LSM-Tree-Based Storage Engine Prototype
Implement the engine in Rust. Components: WAL, memtable (skip list), SSTables on disk with bloom filters and sparse index, two compaction strategies (size-tiered, leveled). Cove…
- Lsm Tree
- Storage Engine
- Rust
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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
Applied Cryptography - CodeAdvancedNew
Profile-Guided Optimization for a Production JavaScript Bundler
Read the bundler's existing release-build pipeline (Rust + Cargo). Design and implement a PGO workflow using Rust's profile-guided LLVM PGO: instrument build, training run on th…
- Profile Guided Optimization
- Llvm
- Benchmarking
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - CodeAdvancedNew
Index a Genomics Dataset with a Suffix Array for Read Matching
Implement a suffix array over a 720 MB DNA sequence (4-character alphabet) using DC3 (Difference Cover modulo 3) or SA-IS construction in Rust. Build pattern-matching utilities …
- Suffix Arrays
- String Algorithms
- Rust
Data Structures - DesignExpertNew
Design an End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Protocol
Read the Signal protocol specifications (X3DH, Double Ratchet) and the team's current architecture (server-stored unencrypted messages). Design an E2EE protocol covering: identi…
- Applied Cryptography
- Protocol Design
- Rust
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