Projects

Proposal Due Date: Thursday, March 17th (11:59pm PST)

Poster Session Dates: Tuesday, April 26 and Thursday, April 28 (Time TBD)

Project Final Report Due Date: Tuesday, May 10th (11:59pm PST)

General Information

• The proposal accounts for 4% of the grade. Proposal page limit: 2 pages.

• IMPORTANT: One proposal per student; write up the details of your project in your own words, even if you are working in a group. We will merge similar proposals from groups together.

• You must include answers to the following questions. Please use them as sections in your document.

  • • State the hypothesis of your project. What is the question that you are seeking to explore, understand, and to some extent answer? What might be the results of this investigation?

    • Context. Will you be working with others on this? Is it a subproject in the context of a larger research effort? Are variants of it going to be utilized in other classes?

    • Key prior work. What are a few (~3) pieces of prior work that this builds upon, is motivated by, to be contrasted with?

    • Empirical methodology. What will be done to investigate this question and establish the results? What resources will be needed for that?

    • Challenges and Obstacles. What do you anticipate might present a problem that will prevent you from pursuing this investigation as fully as you would like?

• You are required to present your project on one of two poster session days: April 26 or April 28. Times, details, and format TBD.

• Project final report length limit: 10 pages, single-column standard latex. Due Tuesday, May 10 11:59 PST. This is a strict deadline as we need to finish grading by the final grades due date. The final project and poster presentation account for 40% of the the grade. The pre-proposal accounts for 1% of grade and proposal for 4%.

• Group size: max 3 people. You may choose to work in a group distinct from the groups you used for homework 1, 2, and 3.

• You are encouraged to discuss your preliminary project ideas with instructors. Just request an appointment.

Some Project Ideas for Spring 2022

You are welcome and encouraged to have your own project ideas. This is especially true if you want to bring parallelism to your ongoing research projects. In addition, we (as the CS267 team) have a few potential ideas below, which you can access at the following Google document. You must be logged in with your Berkeley email account to view it.

Project Ideas from the Course Staff

Grading

Below are components that will make up your project grade and the first two components are the most important:

1. Practical content/creativity; implementation/tuning effort.

2. Experimental data: scaling/performance analysis/interesting inputs or outputs.

3. Theoretic content/creativity; design/analysis of algorithms.

4. Impact: difficulty and timeliness of the contribution.

We understand that not all projects will have all four components but it is expected that the first two components will be present in all projects. As such, we expect the majority of your final report to be about parallelism, and not the problem description.

Here are materials from poster sessions in years prior:

• Posters and abstracts from CS267 in Spring 2022

• Brief oral poster presentations from CS267 in Spring 2019

• Brief oral poster presentations from CS267 in Spring 2016

• Brief oral poster presentations from CS267 in Spring 2015

• Brief oral poster presentations from CS267 in Spring 2014

• Brief oral poster presentations from CS267 in Spring 2013

• Brief oral poster presentations from CS267 in Spring 2012

Submission

Berkeley students: please submit a PDF file (only a PDF will be accepted) to bCourses.