CSE 262 Preparation for Lecture 2

Due Thursday 4/2/09 in class

1. Tell me about yourself.
   1. At what stage are you in your studies?
   2. What are your research interests?
   3. Are you contemplating working with large datasets for your research or your job?
   4. Are there any aspects of your technical background that you'd like to tell me about, or that you'd like to develop further?
   5. What would you like to get out of the course?
   6. Do you have a research project in mind?
   7. Are you interested in using the Cell BE, a GPU?
   8. Are you looking for a lab partner?
   9. How do you feel about your programming and teamwork skills? Would you like to improve them?
   10. Do you feel you could teach these skills to others?
   11. Does anything else come to mind?
       

2. Browse the web and read about a data-centric application, a service, or a data source. Describe the application or service. Some sources have been collected on this web site.

   Report on available information that addresses the following points.

   1. What is the application or service, and its significance?
   2. What hardware does the application or service run on?
      1. What are the bottlenecks or other limitations and how did the developers attempt to deal with them?
      2. Are there any outstanding performance bottlenecks or limitations that the code developers plan to address in the future?
   3. Is the application or service still in use? Is there any competition? Is the software a commercial product?
   4. How widely (was) is the application used? Does it have a wiki or a user's group?

   Submitting your assignment

   Turn in hard copy in class.