Paper 2

CS 641 Paper, Dr. Lawlor

Again, I'd like you to write a research paper. It doesn't have to be a completely novel topic (no paper actually is), and it doesn't have to describe only your own work (referencing other people's work is always recommended), but it has to look like a research paper, and consist of 100% your own writing.

It is perfectly OK if paper 2 extends work you did in paper 1.

Research or Applied Topics

Any of the topics from paper 1 are fine, or now we also have some more recent material:

Anything related to multicore, cache coherence, or scalable shared memory.
Anything related to networks, MPI, message passing, or cloud computing.

Deadlines

Be prepared to talk for 5 minutes and have 10 minutes of topic discussion in class Thursday, April 19.
Give me an anonymous review draft by Thursday, April 26. I will send these around the class for anonymous peer review (double blind).
Your reviewer feedback must be returned by Tuesday, May 1.
Give us a presentation in class on Thursday, May 3.
Turn in your final draft by midnight Tuesday, May 8 (the day of the final exam).

Let me remind you that according to the syllabus, the two papers together make up 40% of your final grade. I will generously consider your outlines as consisting of half of paper 1, but most folks don't have many points left to lose from paper 2!