| Week | Goals | |
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| Dates start Monday and end Sunday | ||
| Mar 31 to Apr 6 | Choose project |
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| Apr 7 to 13 |
- Read/Review papers justifying the trends towards low power computing - Read/Review papers on latest trends of mobile computing - Find benchmarks and testing harnesses used for GPUs |
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| Apr 14 to 20 |
- Go to techshop and see if they have current sensors if not order one - Setup current sensor and have it communicate with ardunio or raspberry pi - Have raspberry pi/ardunio sample the current as fast it can and communicate the data to the computer to generate the time vs power plot - Code GUI using QT which reads in serial data and generates a real time "time vs power" plot |
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| Apr 21 to 27 |
- Go through and document the basic power consumption information of the system. - Found a need to collect and compare data and so we must add an option on the current plot to allow one to do this. - Need to add the ability to save to the testing harness. |
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| Apr 28 to May 4 |
- Another sanity check can we improve our tests are there any especially power hungry algorithms - Can we find odd relationships between power and speed does the fastest algorithm always consume the least power. - Test the power consumption of compute bound applications, of memory bound applications as well as combination of cpu and gpu stressing algorithms. |
May 5 to May 6 |
- Update the website one last time and prepare final presentation - What anomalies did we find? - Were there any limits as to how accurately we could measure the power - Any suggestions for those wanting to measure the power consumption of algorithms correctly? - Is the Tegra K1 a game changer? |