Hello,
For the oral exam/project presentation, I am in a group that planned the presentation all later this year. Unfortunately, due to an exchange, I can not do the presentation in the later time slots.
For the presentation, does the project still need to be 100% complete? Since the deadline is end of September. If we already did some significant work, can I also discuss our approach of the work done so far? If so, is there a certain milestone we need to hit before my presentation?
Also, the presentation is 30 minutes, half of it was for the project, and the other half was to discuss the content of the slides right? For this, are we expected to have a general understanding all the topics discussed in the slides, or de we also need to study the examples from the slides?
Thank you in advance.
Thies
Hi Thies,
I think there were some misunderstandings, so let me go through the PTFS-CAM exam and project step by step:
- Everyone (who takes the oral exam) has to do the coding project and submit it one week prior to their oral exam. This includes the (working) code and a project report, discussing the optimizations you did, the performance analysis for the separate kernels, and a scaling study. Similar to the tutorials, this project can be done and submitted as a group of up to three students. However, each student must submit their project and project report via Moodle and clearly state on the report the other group members. No one is forced to work in a group and everyone is free to do the project by themselves, as well as choose different group members compared to the tutorials.
- You must submit a complete report, hence, we cannot allow you to just do a part of it because your usual team members have their oral exam a couple of months later. We think the scope of the project is not too big to do it easily by yourself, or look for other students who have a similar date for their oral exam.
- Neither before nor during the exam you have to do a presentation of your project. We will read carefully through your (hopefully on time) submitted report, check the numbers, and look at your code and based on this, we will ask you a few questions during the oral exam, depending on what we found interesting or missed in your project and the quality of the analyses and measurements. Therefore, even if you work in a group and split up the work, you should be familiar with what your team members did and should be able to explain why you decided to do certain things this way or how to calculate certain predictions.
- The overall oral exam comprises 30min and within this time frame we will ask questions about the exam, the tutorials, and the project. If you have the chance to ask students who passed the exam in previous semesters, I recommend to ask them about their experience and maybe they still remember one thing or two. Prof. Wellein usually talks about the most relevant topics for the exam and the general process in (one of) the last lecture.
I hope things are clearer now; let me know if I left some questions unanswered!
Best,
Jan