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- DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Foundation for Veterinary-Clinic SaaS
Using the provided tenant tier specification and tenant roster, design and prototype a multi-tenant model where each tenant gets its own Kubernetes namespace for compute, its ow…
- Kubernetes
- Multi Tenancy
- AWS
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Misshapen Kubernetes Cluster
Receive 30 days of cluster metrics (Prometheus + AWS Cost Explorer exports), Helm releases, and PodDisruptionBudgets per namespace. Profile: identify the top 3 cost drivers (lik…
- Kubernetes
- Cost Optimization
- AWS
Cloud Computing - DesignIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Self-Service Developer Platform on Backstage
Read the company case file, the squad-and-service inventory, and the Platform v1 postmortem, and consult the official Backstage software-templates documentation for the mechanic…
- Internal Developer Platform
- Backstage
- Terraform
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Lexer and Parser for a Customer Query Language
Using the grammar sketch, the query corpus sample, the Abstract Syntax Tree schema, and the edge-case suite provided to you, write a design proposal for a new lexer and parser t…
- Lexing
- Recursive Descent Parsing
- Abstract Syntax Trees
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Compile a C-Like Subset to WebAssembly for a Game Runtime
Using the studio runtime constraints brief, the five example scripts, and the runtime host harness declared in the provided materials, build a command-line compiler that reads o…
- Code Generation
- Webassembly
- Intermediate Representation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Source-to-Source Migration Tool for a Legacy API
Use Python's libcst (concrete syntax tree library) to parse customer code while preserving formatting. For each of the 14 transformations, write a CST visitor that matches the v…
- Abstract Syntax Trees
- Source To Source Transformation
- Python
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement an SSA-Based Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation Pass
Read the IR specification (SSA form, phi nodes, typed values). Implement SCCP as a single combined worklist algorithm operating on the SSA lattice (top / constant / bottom) and …
- Static Single Assignment
- Dataflow Analysis
- Constant Propagation
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design an AVX-512 Vectorization Proposal for a Hot Simulation Kernel
Working only from the provided scalar kernel module, the benchmark dataset, the profiling readout, and the target-environment brief, propose and justify a vectorization design f…
- Vectorization
- Llvm
- Loop Optimization
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- 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 - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design an Electronic Health Record Data-Quality Audit
Stand up a Python (pandas + DuckDB) audit notebook ingesting the 14M-record extract. Define and run quality checks across four dimensions: completeness (required-field missingne…
- Health Informatics
- Data Quality
- Snomed Ct
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Atrial Fibrillation from Wearable Heart-Rate Data
Build a Python pipeline that ingests raw PPG + accelerometer at 100Hz, applies motion-artifact rejection using the accelerometer channel, detects beats, computes RR-interval irr…
- Health Sensing
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Signals
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Protein Structure Search and Visualization Tool
Build a FastAPI backend wrapping Foldseek's easy-search command, returning top-20 hits with alignment metadata. Build a React frontend with a structure upload widget and a 3D vi…
- Biomolecular Structure
- Bioinformatics
- Full Stack Development
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Differential Expression Pipeline for an RNA-Seq Drug Discovery Run
Build a Snakemake pipeline running: fastp trimming, salmon quantification against a provided GENCODE reference, tximport for gene-level summarization, DESeq2 differential testin…
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Genomics
- Differential Expression
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cache Configuration Study for a Memory-Bound Workload
Profile the existing inner loop on a workstation with perf to baseline L1/L2/L3 miss rates and miss latencies. Run the same loop through gem5's classic cache model under 6 confi…
- Caches
- Memory Subsystems
- Performance Modeling
Computer Architecture - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Branch Predictor Study for a Cryptocurrency Hashing Library
Profile the hot inner loop with perf record + perf annotate to identify the 5 highest-frequency branches. Measure per-branch mispredict counts using perf counters (BR_MISP_RETIR…
- Branch Prediction
- Performance Counters
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Sketch a Custom Gaussian-Blur Accelerator for a Smart-Camera Chip
Using the provided C reference implementation of the 5x5 Gaussian blur, work out a hardware datapath that produces one finished output pixel every clock cycle by sliding a 5x5 w…
- Hardware Accelerators
- Datapath Design
- Performance Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Instruction Set Analysis for an Embedded Workload
Compile all 12 workload programs to both ISAs using the appropriate cross-compiler (GCC with -march=rv32e for RISC-V; provided proprietary toolchain for the in-house ISA). Repor…
- Instruction Sets
- Code Density
- Embedded Systems
Computer Architecture - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cache Coherence Protocol Comparison on a Multicore Simulator
Stand up gem5's Ruby coherence framework with both MESI and MOESI protocols on a 16-core configuration. Run the 6-benchmark suite (provided): producer-consumer queue, false-shar…
- Cache Coherence
- Multicore Architecture
- Simulation
Advanced Computer Architecture - AnalysisSeniorNew
Memory Consistency Model Audit of a Lock-Free Queue
Read the SPSC queue source (around 200 lines of C++). For each atomic operation, classify the required ordering and verify the chosen memory_order is sufficient under both x86-T…
- Memory Consistency
- Concurrency
- Lock Free Programming
Advanced Computer Architecture - AnalysisIntermediateNew
GPU Roofline Model Study for a Computer Vision Inference Workload
Construct empirical roofline plots for the current GPU (A100-class) and next-gen GPU (H100-class) using vendor-published peak FLOPs and measured peak memory bandwidth. Profile t…
- Gpu Architecture
- Roofline Model
- Performance Modeling
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Out-of-Order Execution Microbenchmark Suite
Design and implement 6 microbenchmarks: ROB capacity probe (varying chain length), load-store queue probe, branch mispredict cost probe, ILP saturation probe, store-to-load forw…
- Out Of Order Execution
- Performance Counters
- Benchmarking
Advanced Computer Architecture - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Mobile AR Furniture-Preview Experience for a Stockholm Retailer
Produce an engineering design proposal for an AR furniture-preview feature inside the retailer's existing mobile app, targeting either ARKit (iOS, USDZ models) or ARCore (Androi…
- Augmented Reality
- 3d Rendering
- Mobile Development
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a GPU-Accelerated Real-Time Wind Turbine Fleet Dashboard
Using the four provided materials, write a design proposal for the rebuilt fleet dashboard. The turbine fleet seed dataset defines the turbines you will render and how to scale …
- Webgl
- Gpu Pipeline
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Physically-Based Path Tracer for a Product Visualization Studio
Build a path tracer in C++ with: ray-triangle and ray-sphere intersection on a BVH (bounding volume hierarchy), Lambertian diffuse and Cook-Torrance GGX specular BRDFs, multiple…
- Physically Based Rendering
- Path Tracing
- Shading And Lighting
Advanced Computer Graphics
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