Project Tips

Here are some important tips to help you do your course project.

General:

• The link to submit your abstract and your project is on the course main page under the heading "Projects." Inside that folder, you will find a link to Project Submission. This will take you to CyberChair, the software used to submit your work.
• Review the lecture notes from Jesper Oppelstrup's lecture Project Work Requirements and Expectations.
• What should a report look like? Here is an example of a Summer School project that passed

Project Topics:

Here are a few possible sources for project ideas in case you have not already thought of one:

• past years' Summer Schools Project Roasters
• handout of classical Summer School project problems including "Eigenvalues of Schrodinger Equations," "Reaction-diffusion Models Showing Oscillating Spiral Patterns," as well as a few others

Performance Model:

IMPORTANT: Check to see if your tutor requires you to including a "Performance Model" in your report. It may not always be necessary, or possible.

• Read Theoretical Performance Measurements
• Read this example of a performance model to understand how to make a theoretical model
• Single node peak performance cannot be used in performance models.

Performance:

• Performance runs must be made on dedicated nodes. Limit them to some reasonable part of the machine.
• State how much memory you use. (Tip on estimating memory usage)
• State which compiler options you used.
• State which MPI routines you used.
• State all relevant parameters, e.g., number of time steps.
• Save your performance data.

Format:

• Include a date or version number on the front page.
• References should be numbered and referred to.
• Figures and tables should have captions and be referred to in the text.
• Of course, for every figure always label X and Y axes (e.g., time, cores, etc) and always state units (e.g., minutes, GB, etc)
• Include pointers to source code (i.e., where online can it be found), not the entire source listing.
• Submit your completed project as a PDF. Do not submit DVI or DOC files!