SPM 2011-2012 exam page
Exam procedure
The SPM course exam consists in two parts:
- the implementation of a project (sse below the project text), and
- an oral exam, including a small demo/discussion relative to the project and some questions on the arguments covered by the course
Project
Text
| Version | Date | File |
|---|---|---|
| 0.9 | May 3rd, 2012 |
Assignments
A student (or a group of two students, when allowed) wishing to start working on the project should first “negotiate” the project. He/she should communicate to the professor the project chosen sending an email (subject “SPM project choice”). The email text should give an idea of
- which project subject has been chosen and
- of the unspecified parameters of the project.
In case of “free application”, as an example, the application chosen should be introduced; in case of any application, the framework chosen for the implementation is to be specified; etc. This information may also be provided during the lesson break or question time. The professor will accept the project (possibly requiring some modifications) either by sending an email or by publishing in the assignment table below the project data.
| Student | Project | Architecture | Tools | Agreed on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiello Rosario | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | Jul 15 |
| Ceppa Ilaria | APPL: game of life | MC | FastFlow | May 9 |
| Colucci Marco | APPL: bucket sort | MC | FastFlow | Jul 18 |
| Crupi Andrea | APPL: bucket sort | MC | FastFlow | May 7 |
| Bernabei Andrea | APPL: monte carlo | MC | FastFlow | Jul 5 |
| Brasino Raffaella | APPL: bucket sort | MC | Skandium | May 11 |
| Brizzi Filippo | APPL: game of life | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Dabisias Giacomo | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 7 |
| De Salve Andrea | APPL: image collage (free appl) | MC | Skandium | May 26 |
| Destalem Negusse | APPL: game of life | MC | FastFlow | May 9 |
| Di Girolamo Salvatore | APPL: game of life | MC | FastFlow | May 11 |
| Esposito Andrea | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Forte Federico | APPL: monte carlo | MC | FastFlow | Jul 30 |
| Galatolo Gabriele | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Gervasi Chiara | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 11 |
| Grandi Marco | SKEL: map reduce | MC | C++ Pthread | Nov 23 |
| Grioli Christian | APPL: monte carlo | MC | FastFlow | Jul 20 |
| Guidotti Riccardo | APPL: game of life | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Ibba Veronica | APPL bucket sort | MC | Skandium | May 7 |
| Isoni Lorenzo | APPL: bucket sort | MC | Skandium | May 7 |
| Khan Md Ashraf Hossain | APPL: bucket sort | MC | FastFlow | May 15 |
| Kosic Sergio | SKEL: map reduce (free) | MC | Java/RMI | May 9 |
| Landolfi Lorenzo | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Ladu Roberto | APPL: monte carlo | MC+GPU | FastFlow+Skepu | May 30 |
| Milli Letizia | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 7 |
| Mohammed Ahmed Ali | APPL: game of life | MC | FastFlow | May 9 |
| Mucci Matteo | SKEL: parameter sweeping | MC | Java | Nov 23 |
| Panascì Giovanni | APPL: bucket sort | MC | Skandium | May 15 |
| Pirritano Lorenzo | APPL: image processing | MC | FastFlow | May 17 |
| Pirollo Giovanni | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Ponza Marco | APPL: bucket sort | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Portaluri Giuseppe | APPL: bucket sort | MC | FastFlow | May 9 |
| Sulas Roberto | APPL: game of life | MC | FastFlow | May 24 |
| Tarquini | APPL: monte carlo | MC | Skandium | May 9 |
| Trani Roberto | SKEL: mapreduce | MC | C++ | June 1 |
| Zicaro Roberto | APPL: bucket sort | MC | Skandium | May 7 |
Exam dates
These are the dates representing the deadlines for the submission of the project. After submission, I'll take about a week to mark projects, then I'll publish dates for oral exams.
| Exam session | Deadline for project submission |
|---|---|
| First summer session | June, 4th |
| Second summer session | June, 25th |
| Third summer session | July, 16th |
| Early autumn session | Sept., 11th |
| First winter session | Jan, 18th 2013 |
| Second winter session (last Academic Year session) | Feb, 8th 2013 |
Resources
Students implementing the project on multicore architectures may have a temporary, local account on a dual quad core Intel of our department (ottavinareale.di.unipi.it). Ottavinareale is not integrated with the cli.di.unipi.it facilities so you cannot use your “student” account to access it. The procedure to obtain the account (only for those that already registered the project with the professor and appear in the list of assignments in this page) requires you come in my studio (during question time or in any other time I'm in) in such a way I immediately activate you an account and you can set your own password to access it.
The accounts assigned on ottavinareale may be used without reservation any time, provided when you log in there is no “Active reservation” message in the /etc/motd (the text (file) you see right before shell prompt on the terminal. The contents of the message may be seen any time with a cat /etc/motd command from the shell prompt, or with a ssh [email protected] cat /etc/motd from any other (Unix/Linux/BSD) machine shell prompt). Code development, debugging and initial tuning may took place on the unreserved machine. The reservation mechanism is only recommended to be sure you'll take time with no other users on the machine for the final tests, those needed to generate the plots included in the final project report. Remember that I suggested you to prepare scripts to be able to run tests offline, in such a way you may also use nightime reservations.
More information on the usage of ottavinareale may be found at this web page.