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- CodeSeniorNew
Scale an HPC MPI Workload Across a Multi-Node Cluster
Receive the MPI weather model (Fortran 2018 + C, ~22,000 lines), 4 weeks of strong-scaling logs (1 to 256 ranks), and access to AWS ParallelCluster with EFA-enabled c7gn instanc…
- Hpc Programming
- Mpi
- Parallel Performance
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - CodeSeniorNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Skip List for a Time-Series Database
Implement Fraser's lock-free skip list in Rust with marked pointers for logical deletion. Validate under loom for all interleavings up to 4 threads (or use shuttle if loom can't…
- Lock Free
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Rust Programming
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Variant-Calling Pipeline for a Genomics SaaS
Stand up a Nextflow pipeline covering: read trimming, BWA-MEM alignment, duplicate marking, base-quality-score recalibration, GATK HaplotypeCaller variant calling, and variant f…
- Bioinformatics
- Variant Calling
- Workflow Orchestration
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Streaming Pipeline for Real-Time Fraud Detection
Receive 30 days of anonymized card-transaction events (around 240M events total), the team's existing batch features (cardholder behavior summaries), and a pre-trained fraud-sco…
- Stream Processing
- Kafka Event Streaming
- Flink
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Solve a Vehicle-Routing Problem with Tabu Search
You receive a week of anonymized daily VRPTW instances (around 800 orders per day, 120 vehicles, hard delivery windows). Implement tabu search with: a route-insertion constructi…
- Tabu Search
- Metaheuristics
- Vehicle Routing
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search - CodeSeniorNew
Implement Distributed Shared Memory Over RDMA for a Trading Firm
Build a DSM library in C++ exposing a region API (allocate, read, write, free). Use ibverbs for RDMA primitives (one-sided read/write, atomics for the directory). Implement dire…
- Distributed Systems Design
- Rdma
- Consistency Models
Advanced Operating Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Diagnose Memory Corruption in a Trading-Firm Order Gateway
Read the 8k-line allocator + order-pool code (provided), plus 3 production crash dumps and 14 hours of pre-crash telemetry. Hypothesize root cause (likely candidates: use-after-…
- Cpp Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Imperative and Low-Level Programming - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare ML Compiler Stacks on a Vision Backbone
Take a frozen ResNet-50 (or similar) in ONNX. Compile and benchmark it via TensorRT on Jetson + GPU, ONNX Runtime on all three, OpenVINO on x86 CPU, and IREE on ARM if time allo…
- Ml Compilers
- Tensorrt
- Onnx Optimization
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Audit BLEU vs. COMET on a Multilingual Customer-Support Corpus
You receive 600 source-translation-reference triples covering 6 languages (EN as source; ES/FR/DE/JA/PT-BR/HI as targets), each scored on adequacy and fluency (1-6) by 3 profess…
- Mt Evaluation
- Neural Mt
- Statistical Analysis
Machine Translation - CodeFoundationalNew
Parallelize an Image-Processing Pipeline with Data Parallelism
Receive the current pipeline (Python 3.12, ~600 lines, uses Pillow + ffmpeg), a representative batch (1,000 images averaging 3MB each), and host specs (16 cores, 32GB RAM). Rewr…
- Data Parallelism
- Python Or Javascript
- Multiprocessing
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - CodeIntermediateNew
Plan Warehouse Pick Routes with a Classical Planner
You receive a stylized warehouse map (aisle graph), 30 sample shifts of pick tasks, and the current heuristic's outputs. Write a PDDL domain + problem generator, solve with at l…
- Pddl Modeling
- State Space Search
- Classical Planning
Automated Planning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Amortized-Analysis Investigation of a Production Cache
Read the C++ cache source (around 1,800 lines, custom open-addressing with periodic resize-and-rehash). Perform amortized analysis using all three methods (aggregate, accounting…
- Amortized Analysis
- Functions & Data Structures
- Algorithm Analysis
Advanced Algorithms Build a verifiable portfolio.
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Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-Sensor Late-Fusion Prototype for an Indoor AGV
Use the public KITTI dataset (or a similar paired LiDAR+RGB dataset) restricted to static-obstacle classes. Implement a late-fusion baseline: a LiDAR-only detector (PointPillars…
- Sensor Fusion
- Object Detection
- Perception
AI for Autonomous Vehicles - 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 - CodeSeniorNew
Design a Polyhedral Loop-Tiling Strategy for a Tensor DSL
Study the DSL's IR (provided, MLIR-based with linalg-style ops). Choose a tiling strategy (rectangular tiling with cost-modeled tile sizes is the safe baseline; full polyhedral …
- Polyhedral Analysis
- Loop Tiling
- Mlir
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization
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