perhaps model number and temps, assuming you do the "cpu-z" thing anyway
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08-04-2012, 01:55 AM
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08-04-2012, 02:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2012, 02:04 AM by NaturalViolence.)
Well it would help if we knew what you were going to write for the other 5, at least a summary.
The program you use will obviously have to be related to the specific study that you are doing. I can certainly think of a few studies that you could do, but most of the ones that come to mind would be more appropriate for a masters or doctorate degree and would take at least a few months at the bare minimum (to complete the study, not the paper). For example you could use a cache simulator to study the effects of various trade offs in cache design on a modern microarchitecture. The reason I probably can't think of any appropriate topics for a bachelor's thesis is because I didn't even know that you're supposed to write a thesis for a bachelor's degree. I had always been under the impression that that was only for post-graduate degrees. Edit: Apparently I was right after all. Thank you internet. If you have a final term paper for a bachelor's degree it should not be called a "thesis". And it should be much shorter than a thesis would normally be. Quote:Remember anyone who helps me with anything during the course of my thesis will have their username included in my acknowledgements If I did help you in any substantial way I would want my real name in your bibliography.
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(08-04-2012, 01:55 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: perhaps model number and temps, assuming you do the "cpu-z" thing anyway Yes, good idea. (08-04-2012, 02:03 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: For example you could use a cache simulator to study the effects of various trade offs in cache design on a modern microarchitecture. A friend of mine did mention this, is it really gonna take months? i wont mind giving it a go if i can get some more info on it. I'll google it later. (08-04-2012, 02:03 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Quote: Remember anyone who helps me with anything during the course of my thesis will have their username included in my acknowledgements You let me know and i'll be sure to put it in. I'll also try to write up the summary and post it by tomorrow.
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08-04-2012, 03:31 AM
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Quote:A friend of mine did mention this, is it really gonna take months? If you're going to do anything useful with it, then yes. Designing a cache is not easy. I have no idea what you're capable of doing at this point but in most circumstances this would be well beyond the skill set of someone working on their bachelor's degree. Plus this has more to do with electronic engineering than computer science, although they do overlap a bit. Quote: i wont mind giving it a go if i can get some more info on it. I'll google it later. It's just one of many random ideas to pop into my head. I still can't really provide much help unless I have some clue what you're trying to accomplish and what the established rules (rubric) are. None of this seems particularly normal for a bachelor's degree in cs, at least not to me.
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(08-04-2012, 03:31 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: None of this seems particularly normal for a bachelor's degree in cs, at least not to me. You're right about that. Most of my classmates are just designing an information system of some kind and their program just involves how that information system actually works. I will continue research online for anything else i can use and waiting for any idea somebody has but for now i guess i'm using the cpu-z program.
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08-04-2012, 03:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2012, 03:56 AM by NaturalViolence.)
What on earth are you doing where cpu-z would actually be useful for collecting data?
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I intend to have one of my aims and objectives as the components of a processor and how the processor actually processes data so a cpu-z like program to actually list a few properties of the processor dosent sound like a bad idea......right?
I'm still very much open to suggesstions
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08-04-2012, 04:40 AM
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Quote:I intend to have one of my aims and objectives as the components of a processor and how the processor actually processes data so a cpu-z like program to actually list a few properties of the processor dosent sound like a bad idea......right? I still don't see how that would provide any useful data. The specs listed by cpu-z have little to do with how processors work. Please write that summary of your proposal so that we have some idea what you're trying to do here.
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By any chance are you familiar enough with any assembly languages to write some basic programs (we're talking simple arithmetic functions here)?
If so then I may have a fairly easy yet effective idea for you. I still don't have a clue what you're trying to do here since "I'm writing a paper about processor architectures" doesn't tell me very much. But I think that at this point I can safely say that whatever you write your paper about has to be fairly simple and involve research/data that has already been done. This is just a final term paper for a bachelor's degree, you're not out to contribute anything major to the world, not yet anyways.
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