Need some ideas for my final project

[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 FPGAs and also in Distributed and parallel computing , so any ideas you guys can give ? any idea which combines both of above ?

Thanks in advance!

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Sounds like you need to build a network of tiny robots, controlled by a world-wide network of PCs giving them enough computing power to become sentient.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Sounds like you need to build a network of tiny robots, controlled by a world-wide network of PCs giving them enough computing power to become sentient.

Just make sure you warn us when you are about to finish it so we can go down in our bunkers.

 

[munisgtm]

What about making a Beowulf HPC and feeding it with some huge data through some dedicated hardware/sensors ?

 

[Pegun]

Cluster computing?

 

[munisgtm]

yep Beowulf is a type of cluster , but how do i link that up with some FPGA ?controller type hardwork(as i'm pretty interested in htat as well) , i really need an idea...

 

[Fritzo]

Since all the best ideas are taken from cartoons, I suggest you get in front of the class and do this:

After seeing Bugs get all the cheers one more time after a juggling act, Daffy decides to try his ultimate act so he can finally impress the audience. Daffy appears in a devil outfit and starts drinking gasoline, uranium and gunpowder. He then lights a match and swallows it, exploding in front of the audience. The audience finally cheers Daffy, and Bugs, who is also applauding, and tells Daffy they loved it. Cut to Daffy in who's floating up to heaven, replying "I know, I know! But I can only do this once!"

 

[IronWing]

Model some mundane physical activity in detail.
Use astonishing amount of computing power to do it.
Get grant.

 

[esun]

FPGAs are very commonly used for highly parallel DSP algorithms. You'll find lots and lots of papers on IEEE detailing for example video processing on an FPGA or some other type of DSP application (communications and signal processing mostly).

 

[munisgtm]

thanks for the input people! I'm still brainstorming

 

[IronWing]

Make a simulation of a person shaking open a plastic trash bag.

 

[Leros]

I saw a project at my school where people are using FPGAs to do DNA searching.

 

[Chronoshock]

Pick a particular encryption algorithm and design a circuit to generate keys, see what kind of output you get through paralellization. Since I'm guessing you don't want to go mad, choose a speedy algorithm like MD5 (yes I know this is not a cryptographically
"robust" method and is intended for hashing, but many security schemes do use MD5).
Your demo will be to create a n-digit alphanumeric password and show how long it takes your circuit to crack it. Tune n to how well you happen to implement it.

 

[munisgtm]

i think DNA searching is way out of my league! thats a great idea Chronosock!

 

[Leros]

DNA searching is just a special case of string searching