Presented within will be various questions evaluating your knowledge and experience gained this semester. In places where you are able, the more you write and explain topics the better the chance you will have of receiving full credit (and alternatively, the more credit you will receive should something be incorrect).

The questions on this experience are open resource with the exception of other individuals. In that respect, it is CLOSED PERSON. This means you are not to communicate with other people (either in the class or otherwise), in real life or electronically. Use your own knowledge, use your skills, and use your ability to access the allowed resources to aid you in coming up with your well thought out answers to each question.

You are allowed, and expected, to ask me questions, so that a problem can be better clarified.

You are to do all items. Submission is preferred in a plain text electronic format, such as in an e-mail with program attachments on Lab46.

You have until 11:59:59pm (that's 23:59:59 in 24-hour time) Thursday, May 20th, 2010 to complete and submit this to me.

If desired, our scheduled finals week meeting time is: Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 from 11:15am-2:15pm in B003 (our regular room).

Good luck!

In art programs, a portfolio is a collection of the works an individual has accomplished.

In HPC, why should we be any different? You've been off on many different adventures this semester, and I've been reminding you to keep notes and documentation on all that you do, and now I'm asking for it in a centralized place– the wiki.

Hopefully you've been putting stuff on the wiki all along, so my next requirement won't be any serious additional work.

I would like for you to put up a wiki page (somewhere– your wiki space, class space) that provides links to the notes/documentation for all your activities (projects, documentation, explorations, etc.) in the course this semester.

Then, provide me with a link to this wiki page, so I can go there and get all the info I need on your activities this semester.

A big part of our explorations this semester involved discovering knowledge, both the intrinsics that make things make more sense in general, and knowledge that the greater internets may have, but could be scattered about in many different places.

The class wiki has been a centralized place for the collection of this data, and now I'd like to fine tune it a bit, and perhaps create a resource that others on the internet can use when exploring similar topics/concepts.

Located at faq:hpc is the FAQ list I've created for this class and EoCE. I would like for EACH of you to come up with 8 questions and answers to contribute to the FAQ. These can include any aspect of exploring and utilizing computing/IT/concepts this semester. But 8 distinct questions/answers from EACH person in the class.

And I don't mean big things… a FAQ should focus on smaller things (error messages, how to accomplish some specific task, etc.), which differs from the larger documentations you may have done in your various endeavors (your FAQ contribution can lift such pertinent data out of your existing documentation).

The FAQ page contains some additional syntax for use with FAQ lists (even though it may not display in any unique way– yet).

Be sure to, as content develops, to organize/categorize as appropriate under subsections.

The intent is to try and make this document what something that would have been very useful to you when we started out at the beginning of the semester.

Throughout the semester you have been working on various projects, either individually or in groups. Part of the requirement for accomplishing the projects was in documenting your efforts, for presentation of such documentation on the wiki.

What I would like, as you fine tune the documentation for your projects, is to create HOWTO documents, so that future individuals journeying in this class can take advantage of the knowledge you have forged, build, and document more capabilities onto these projects.

I would like to see a polished HOWTO for each project undertaken (obviously those projects not undertaken by anyone will not be represented). But those projects that have been undertaken by many individuals/groups may work together to produce a definitive and comprehensive HOWTO that can be used as a resource in the future.

Links to such HOWTOs should be clearly identified on any portfolio pages, and should make use of wiki syntax to enhance their presentation (use WRAP for colored boxes, use bolding and tables and underlining and headings, use command-line examples… make something that you wish you had in front of you when initially undertaking this project; as it is not merely for someone else to use in the future, but you may wish to utilize such knowledge again in the future… or take advantage of some future enhancement to this work).

After an exciting and intellectually challenging run, we're arriving at the end of this semester's journey. The course as we all experienced it, unfolds in a manner pertaining in part to how you respond to concepts and topics (do we need more time, can I crank it up a couple notches, etc.) so each semester and each class is entirely different from any other- because of each of you, and all of us, working together and learning together.

So, searching deep down within your soul- balancing reason with emotion, and considering attendance and timeliness; answer me the following:

• What grade do you feel you deserve for this course?
• Why do you feel you deserve this mark? (Justify your answer based on your own perceived performance, not on need.)
• How did you feel about the course?
• Was it useful/interesting to you?
• What was your least favorite aspect, and why?
• What was something meaningful to you with respect to the course? Why does this stick out in your mind?
• Any other comments or suggestions?