title: Ideas for student parallel programming project
body: <p>I'm looking to do a parallel programming project in C (probably using pthreads or maybe OpenMP) for a class. It will done by a group of about four students, and should take about 4 weeks. I was thinking it would be interesting to attack some NP-complete problem with a more complex algorithm like a genetic algo with simulated annealing, but I'm not sure if it would be a big enough project.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone knew of any cool problems that could benefit from a parallel approach?</p>