Semester Elective Project

Proposal

You must submit your project proposal as a 1-2 page PDF. You must include the following sections:

  1. Team - List all team members.
  2. Goal - What is the goal of the project? Be as specific as you can. What problem(s) do you wish to address in your project?
  3. Relevance - How is the project relevant to parallel and distributed systems? Which concepts and techniques from the course will you need to apply to complete your project?
  4. Methods - What exactly do you plan to do? Again, be as specific as possible. What (if any) software do you plan to modify? What (if any) software do you plan to write from scratch? What parallel technologies or languages do you plan to use?
  5. Possible Roadblocks - What are the obstacles that you anticipate running into? How do you plan to overcome these issues?
  6. Mid-Project Deliverable - What do you plan to submit as your mid-project (March 25) deliverable? What are the criteria or the rubrics by which I should evaluate it?
  7. Final Deliverable - What do you plan to submit as your final (April 8) deliverable? What are the criteria or the rubrics by which I should evaluate it?
  8. Showcase - How do you plan to present and/or demo your project at the showcase (April 15)? Do you anticipate needing any special equipment?