If you have not done so yet, please complete a MyExperience survey for COMP4601. So far we have 14 responses, which is a bit low for statistically significant conclusions to be drawn.
Thanks!
Hi all,
Would you please add your final presentation slides to your project wikis? I will take a look at these together with your demo videos and final reports....
Also, if you would please complete your myExperience surveys before Friday evening, that would be greatly appreciated. I understand it is a bit of a pain, but getting feedback after major revision to a course is very helpful to fix up anything that isn't working well.
Good luck with finishing everything off for COMP4601 !!
All the best, Oliver
Hi all
Next week is the final week for the course! As such, your final project reports and demo videos are due late Friday afternoon. Before that, I'm looking forward to your presentations during the Wednesday/Thursday lab sessions. I propose the following schedule for the presentations. Please let me know if the arrangement does not work for you. Please post your slides to your project's entry on the course wiki. Thanks... Oliver
| Team | Schedule |
| Yellow | W1 |
| String | W2 |
| Rijndael | W3 |
| Three | W4 |
| FashionCNN | W5 |
| SORTed | W6 |
| LackOne | W7 |
| COMPLZW | T1 |
| De(com)pression | T2 |
| Just another CNN | T3 |
| AENEAS | T4 |
| QuickMiners | T5 |
| Blue | T6 |
| Forward Thinkers | T7 |
We have a full session of 4 seminars on tomorrow. Please therefore show up promptly at 11am Sydney time as we will start as soon as we can.
In reviewing the seminar evaluations that were submitted last week I noticed a couple of things:
See you tomorrow.
Apologies for the delay in returning these!
Thanks to all of you for an interesting set of sessions listening to your project plan presentations! I was surprised how well you have managed the relatively short period of time you've had to work on the projects and the challenges posed by collaborating online. Please keep up the great effort!
I felt I should provide a little guidance to help all of us given what we discussed:
Good luck with your projects, and I am looking forward to hearing about your outcomes!
We move into the second phase of the course this week with the presentation of seminars commencing during the scheduled lecture period on Wednesdays from 11 am - 2 pm. This week we will have three seminars, on Datacentre Acceleration, Large-Scale Computation and Neural Network Accelerators.
Executive summaries of each presentation will be posted on the Seminars page by Monday evening, and a preliminary version of the slides will be available by Tuesday evening. Course members who are not presenting are expected to attend, to contribute to a brief discussion of each topic, and to complete a seminar evaluation form . One form per seminar is to be submitted using the submission link accessible from the weekly set of topic references provided on the Seminars page.
Project Plan presentations are scheduled for this week. They will be held during the lab sessions at 3 - 6 pm Wednesday and 9 - 12 pm Thursday. The desired formats of (i) the presentation, and (ii) the written plan, are described in the
Week 7 Project Plan and presentation entry
of the
Project Deliverables
page.
With 14 groups presenting, half have been allocated to the Wednesday session and the remaining half to the Thursday session. The session your group will be presenting in is indicated below. Please get in touch with me if the allocation won't work for your group. Would you also think of a name for your group and designate a spokesperson with whom I can communicate by email when necessary and let me know of your decision during your presentation. Thanks.
Wednesday 14 July
Thursday 15 July
Please take feedback into account in preparing your submission for handin05.
Thanks
Junning has put in a huge effort and finished the marking.
Please contact Junning in the first instance for any clarification on your handin03 marks.
The Seminars section of the course website has been released. Please read and follow the instructions provided in the overview section .
Please select your preferred topic by completing the referenced Doodle Poll by 30 June .
Seminars will be presented during the scheduled lecture period from Week 7 - Week 10.
Last week's hand-in is due at 5pm today.
If you haven't told me who is in your project team yet nor which project you're working on, please do so as soon as you can.
As forewarned, and in the absence of counter-suggestions, I have updated the weightings for the Week 3-5 lab hand-ins to 10% each and updated the spec for the Week 3 hand-in accordingly (please refresh to see spec marked "Modified 15/06/2021"). Given the increased weighting, I have extended the deadlines for the remaining 3 hand-ins: they will be due at 5pm on the Monday of the week following the lab in which they were worked upon.
The final project reporting has been reduced in weighting. These changes have the overall effect of increasing the individual component of the mark to 65%, as reflected in the updated Course Outline.
Please remember that the hand-in for the Week 2 lab is due by 5pm today.
Please consider the implications of the proposed changes to the assessment weightings for COMP4601 and let me know of any concerns.
Thanks
The COMP4601 project details have now been released. My apologies for the delay.
Now is the time to read over the guidelines and requirements before finalising on your team and the project you wish to work on.
Email me if you need help finding someone to work with - I will try to help.
Please email me the name of your team members and the project you are planing to work on by Friday 18 June.
I hope to have the 2021 seminar list ready next week.
I'd like you to consider agreeing to re-weighting the number of marks allocated to labs and the project in COMP4601 because we are likely to spend about as much time working on labs this term as we are on projects and the scope of the projects is quite a bit less than in recent years.
The current assessment for the course is outlined here .
I think we should increase the weighting of the lab hand-ins to 35% and reduce the project weighting to 35%.
So as not to disadvantage anyone, I propose keeping the mark for the first hand-in as 5% of the course mark. Subsequent hand-ins will be worth 10% rather than 5%, as they are weighted now.
I propose reducing the weighting of the final project presentation, demonstration and report from 30% to 15%.
I welcome any feedback on the proposal - either direct by email, or in the course forum.
I will make a final decision by Tuesday afternoon next week.
This Thursday is the last chance to get help with installing the Xilinx software and setting up your lab environment before labs proper start next week. Please come along tomorrow if you need help with your installation or completing Ch.2 of the Vivado HLS Tutorial.
Hello all & welcome to Week 1 of 21T2.
A class has been set up on Teams, where you are invited to attend the first on-line, live lecture at 11am on Wednesday. This meeting will be recorded.
The first lab session will take place on Teams at 3pm on Wednesday. This is primarily aimed at helping you set up your lab environment if you have not already done so - please refer to the instructions for setting up your lab environment . For the first 5 weeks of the course, the Thursday lab sessions repeat the content of the Wednesday lab sessions.
Hello! Welcome to the 21T2 offering of COMP4601!
The design task in 2021 will shift towards the use of high-level synthesis to implement FPGA-based accelerators. Since this direction is new to CSE, I am working on a revision of the lectures, labs and projects for the course. Please stay tuned for a revised course outline, and see you soon.