Energy Efficient Computing (EEC14)
Start date: Week 13, 2014
ECTS credits: 5
Course period: Quarter 4, 2014
Maximum number of participants: 10-20
Apply before: Week 13, 2014
Contact person: Stefanos Kaxiras or Magnus Själander
Aim of course
The course will cover state of the art techniques for improved energy efficiency of computer systems. The course will be organized as a program committee where each week a set of articles will be assigned to students that will write reviews and present the papers.
News
- Added summary of course evaluation
- The remaining articles to be covered in this course has been added to EasyChair
- Schedule for the last three meetings are now decided.
- The seventh meeting will be held on Friday 9/5 at 13:15 in room 4306.
- The sixth meeting will be held on Friday 5/5 at 13:15 in room 4306.
- The fifth meeting will be held on Friday 25/4 at 13:15 in room 4306.
- The fourth meeting will be held on Wednesday 16/4 at 15:15 in room 4308.
- The third meeting is schedule on Friday 11/14 at 13:15 in 1406. The assignment of articles to read for the meeting has been done.
- The second meeting is scheduled on Friday 4/4 at 10:15 in 4308.
- Assignments of articles for the second meeting have been done and reviews are to be entered into EasyChair on Thursday (3/4) at the latest.
- Assignments of articles for the first meeting have been done and reviews are to be entered into EasyChair on Thursday (27/3) at the latest.
- The first meeting has been scheduled for Friday, March 28.
- EasyChair will be used for the review process and if you haven't gotten an invitation to become a PC member then send a mail to Magnus Själander. If you have gotten a mail inviting you to be a PC member you need to accept the invitation and create an EasyChair account in case you do not already have one.
Schedule
Date | Activity | Room |
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27/3 | Deadline for review 1 | |
28/3 14:00 | Meeting 1 | 4306 |
3/4 | Deadline for review 2 | |
4/4 10:15 | Meeting 2 | 4308 |
10/4 | Deadline for review 3 | |
14/4 10:15 | Meeting 3 | 4308 |
15/4 | Deadline for review 4 | |
16/4 15:15 | Meeting 4 | 4308 |
24/4 | Deadline for review 5 | |
25/4 13:15 | Meeting 5 | 4306 |
4/5 | Deadline for review 6 | |
5/5 13:15 | Meeting 6 | 4306 |
8/5 | Deadline for review 7 | |
9/5 13:15 | Meeting 7 | 4306 |
18/5 | Deadline for review 8 | |
19/5 13:15 | Meeting 8 | 4306 |
25/5 | Deadline for review 9 | |
26/5 13:15 | Meeting 9 | 4306 |
1/6 | Deadline for review 10 | |
2/6 13:15 | Meeting 10 | 4306 |
Course Evaluation
Question | Scale | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
What is your overall impression of the course | Poor/great | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 84 |
I believe the contents of the course will be useful in my research | Unlikely/likely | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 80 |
I believe the contents of the course will be useful in my future career | Unlikely/likely | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 84 |
My background knowledge was | Insufficient/sufficient | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 57 |
The difficulty of the course was at a good level | Disagree/agree | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 91 |
The course was well organized | Disagree/agree | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 95 |
The discussions were informative | Disagree/agree | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 84 |
The covered material gave a good overview of the area (One blank form) | Disagree/agree | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 83 |
Would you recommend the course to your colleagues | No/yes | 0 | - | - | - | 11 | 100 |
Comments:
- Sometimes (for some papers) the required background knowledge in hardware was necessary.
- Regarding the discussions it varied a lot for different papers. Some of them were really interesting whereas others were not very exciting. Overall, it was sometimes hard to get a good idea about a paper just from reviews and discussions.
What did you like most about the course?
- Very good papers have been selected
- Very useful and professional discussions in meetings
- Organization and meetings
- It covered several topics about energy efficiency
- Reading and reviewing papers regularly makes me understand much of this area
- Discussions was the most important part
- Evaluation/reviews of the papers
- I liked very much the methodology and how the course was organized
- The simulation of the PC meeting was great and a great way to learn
- I got to leant a lot about the state of art in energy efficient computing
- The format of the course was also interesting and new to me
- For me it was useful to get an overview of what current architecture research is about
- It is good to get and insight into how papers are written in a different field than the one where I am doing research
- The course is organized as a conference and each participant can be a reviewer
- Using EasyChair was a good idea
What could be changed/improved in the course?
- It would be better if the students that reviewed a paper made some questions about the paper and let others answer them. This way all students have a minimum familiarity with all papers discussed during every meeting
- More time between classes so that there is time to go through all papers
- The course was too dense
- On average the quality of the papers was very high and provided an excellent perspective of the topic. Still there are a few that should be replaced
- Maybe the discussions were unbalanced sometimes. Some participants remained quiet most of the time and the participation can be split more evenly
- Perhaps it would be possible to make more of the reviewer-based system. If discussions were based more closely on reviews it would be an opportunity to get feedback on and improve one's reviewing skills
- Teacher can summarize more for each paper and make connection between papers to show a wide view
- Domain can be extended with few papers related to embedded or cloud computing