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Methods not explained. The results/conclusion are not clear. Was a supercomputer used?
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A Judge said
This project poses some interesting ideas, and appears to have a lot of self-discovered efforts. Not all the explanations are very clear or complete, so it was a bit hard to evaluate. I have the impression the project is not really complete, but was a good start.
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A Judge said
Nothing significant to show. Very low level of analysis
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A Judge said
The student recognized the importance of narrowing scope of problem. Unfortunately, the report did not compare his results to known actual results. He understood the basics of genetics and did have a working program at interim report time.
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A Judge said
Check spelling in the report next time. Also, the description of the project needs some work. I recommend expanding this idea and continuing on with this type of project next year.
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A Judge said
seems to understand a real problem and to make good use of computing report preparation problem unfortunate
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A Judge said
Its a shame we couldn't get a look at this student's Final report. I saw his interim in Portales and felt that he had a very good grasp of his subject. I think we ought to have him up to LA and see what he has done.
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A Judge said
It's unclear to me what you did.
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A Judge said
Need to use a spell checker on the report. Please include the code and results.
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A Judge said
A good project that never got organized.
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A Judge said
Interesting concept. I encourage you to continue developing the work if your high school career continues next year. Analyze your process and determine where you can adjust your scope to overcome the limitations you identify in this analyse. New Mexico/LANL is involved in the Human Genome Project. Perhaps some assistance is available from people at the lab.
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A Judge said
this project has interesting computational areas. research like "BUCKET BRIGADE" would help in soldifiying the application of genetic decline over time. The project needs to be more flushed out, though
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A Judge said
Project can be better defined. Complete computer program.
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A Judge said
Good start. More explanation of theory is required to help reader understand project. Grammer needs editing. Hope team will expand on this for next year.
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A Judge said
Good idea and creativity in setting up the program. Keep up your interest and enthusiasm for this topic! For now, it needs testing and verification.
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A Judge said
Code seems interesting, innovative approach, but the way it's written does not facilitate understanding.
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A Judge said
Very well done. The report has a good explaination of the project. The matrices are well defined. I think this outstanding report/project is worthy of an award.
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A Judge said
These students appeared to have set up and solved LaPlace's equation for a system consisting of a triangular mountain. The project is interesting, and challenging. The students show a good understanding of the work they have done, and they have obtained reasonable results. The report is well-written, and the results shown are informative. Great job!
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A Judge said
Topic is a bit different, and the part to try both linear and parallel computing really raises this probject above the background into a final level project. It is a big and interesting step.
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A Judge said
Students wrote parallel code. Good breakdown of tasks by team members documented. Very nice report and well-written. An impressive amount of work was done. Code was well-documented.
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A Judge said
An impressive amount of work done...with results!
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A Judge said
Found it interesting tht the team indicated that the choice of Laplaces equation was totally arbitrary. Fig caption 1.1 in Appendix C comes across as arrogant. Good use of graphics.
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A Judge said
This looks very solid to me. They appear to have done a good job of dealing with a reasonable problem.
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A Judge said
good grasp of lightning, a complicated subject believable results good graphics also parallel code a lot of work
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A Judge said
This team has chosen a relatively simple project. They have gone about a solution scheme in the right way. To a certain extent, the services of a supercomputer are required, especially if they extent there program to three-dimensions. I also like that they started with simple cases first and moved to more complicated problems. Gives me confidence. Their ultimate goal is a bit unclear but their results are what one would intuitively expect. Their report is good if a bit disorganized.
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A Judge said
Good problem to solve. Good use of parallelization. Try a number of peaks of different sharpness and heights.
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A Judge said
This was a very good project. One thing that needs to be amplified is the physics aspect. Virtually nothing was said about electrical potentials, voltages, etc. The code was nicely done and I like the idea of the project and its execution. So, amplify the voltage and this project can reach its potential.
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A Judge said
- Excellent project. Good problem definition and execution (research, coding, etc)
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A Judge said
Nice use of a supercomputer. The presentation could be more focused on the solution of the problem and less on the various type of lighting.
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A Judge said
Very good written report
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A Judge said
Shouldn't include graphs that are "self-explanatory" in report. Good examination of results of change in density of grid. Nice presentation methods used in report.
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A Judge said
I like your write-up very much. Good clear definitions and explanations! Your discussion of an actual strike is very good. I also like the fact that you made trade-offs when doing your project. That is so important! Outstanding.
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A Judge said
Quantitatively and qualitatively explicit.
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A Judge said
The report does not provide important definitions, such as C136/C1. The report does not explain the role of the super computer in the analysis, nor the analysis emphasized. Sites 1,2, & 3 have more Chlorine 36 when compared to Sites 4,5, & 6. Should they have the same?
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A Judge said
This project is the beginning of a credible effort, but has not yet reached the stage where significant computation has become necessary. The student has learned a lot, and I hope she continues with the project.
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A Judge said
This is more of a SCIENCE FAIR project. What little code there was was just simple calculator stuff.
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A Judge said
A practical, immediate problem. Good diagrams. Where's program and use of supercomputer?
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A Judge said
The final report needs more explanation in order to understand what was accomplished in this project.
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A Judge said
Lacked info on what the code did in detail. Straight line fit didn't seem to be a good hypothesis.
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A Judge said
Interesting analysis of experimental results. But no supercomputing.
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A Judge said
Certainly an important topic, but you need to do a more comple model to justify the use of a powerful computer. Have you considered modeling the water flows or wind or whatever lead to the current distribution of soild deposits (if any effects are active anymore)?
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A Judge said
This report was not very well written. I couldn't quite figure out what was going on.
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A Judge said
- Good sci fair project, but too simplistic for a NMSCC project (calcualtor problem only). Good effort, however.
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A Judge said
This project does not seem finished. Is the goal of the project to model flow through the soil?
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A Judge said
Program not yet written? Appears to be a research project of LANL's.
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A Judge said
Good start on project but needs expansion.
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A Judge said
Good summary. Be sure to label and explain all of your figures. Neat idea and good description of what you want to do. Where do you do it? I'd like to see more description of how and your results.
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A Judge said
More appropriate for Science Fair than NM HS SCC -- where's the code and who is writing it ("A code is being written..." p.5)?? LANL?? CST-7??
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A Judge said
Interesting study. I like the basic idea. Much more could have been done. Simulate the explosive shock with the blast. if x blast or size of bomb. results in shock. How much shock is necessary for damage? The conclusion does not tell me about the findings.
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A Judge said
The level of programming here is too small to be a contender for the challenge. The problem is certainly one that would present a significant computational challenge, but it appears to have been more involved than the students expected.
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A Judge said
No substantial computing involved -- just simple calculator stuff, and it was incomplete.
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A Judge said
Very relevant today. Where's rest of code? What is i.cbrt(w)? Not documented.
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A Judge said
Interesting idea, but needs more work to be competitive.
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A Judge said
Written as though the team solved the non-ideal explosion problem.
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A Judge said
They are using the computer to graph a function. This is useful in teaching basic programming but it is not supercomputing.
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A Judge said
How would the geometry of the situation affect things -- i.e., reflections of the shock wave off of the ground or buildings?
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A Judge said
I thought this project was a little too simplistic. There are some real intruiging possibilities, though.
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A Judge said
- As executed, only a calculator problem. Could have made a nice project for a finite element analysis study. - OK effort, however!
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A Judge said
An extention of this project would be to model the backwash of the explosion or maybe two explosions cancelling each other out.
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A Judge said
Good start..complete the graphic output.
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A Judge said
Good subject with interesting applications. Would like to see team participate in next year's Challenge with an expansion on their thesis.
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A Judge said
Nice explanation of why your project is unique - the nonideal explosion case. But then I am confused in your actual algorithm of how you are incorporating the nonideal. What parts of your algorithm model this?
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A Judge said
Did you complete the program? A nice problem, though the format is not one of a Final Report.
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A Judge said
very interesting. I have one major reservation. Was the data analysis done on a MAC computer or the supercomputer? The data was gathered on Newnet stations around Santa Fe, which sounds like a nice environmental project. The analysis is very good and quite informative. Worthy of an award.
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A Judge said
The computational aspect of this project comes in two parts -- the first is data acquisition and the second is data analysis. It seems that more was accomplished in the first than in the second. More time series analysis would have been very interesting. The report is very professionally written. I think the students have learned a lot, and I hope they continue with their interests in this subject.
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A Judge said
Another nice SCIENCE FAIR project. Even though the computing was helpful in this project, it was only secondary, and not really significant computationally.
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A Judge said
Very visually nice paper, well-written. Student understood various variables affecting data. Code need more internal documentation. Documented use of internet.
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A Judge said
A final presentation on this may be interesting. It looks as if a lot of work has been put into this project.
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A Judge said
This was one of the few reports that questioned whether the computer was giving reasonable results. The time analysis would have been nice but the author recognized that he was getting nonsense. The preface was somewhat confusing, did the teacher act as a team member?
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A Judge said
I think this one looks terrific. He has done a lot in dealing with large quantities of real data.
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A Judge said
This looks to be a well-executed project with the misfortune of being unable to get their code working (and who hasn't been there?). They have access to loads of data and their analysis of it appears reasonable. But no computing. Still a good project Maybe they should get the networking award.
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A Judge said
Very interesting results. Good speculation on the reasons for variations in the gamma flux... can you think of ways to test if these theories are correct??
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A Judge said
This was a good report, but it took me a while to figure out that the temporal variation meant rain. I'm not sure that pressure has any- thing to do with it except that decreasing pressure generally implies rain. A lot of good work went into this project. Also, some justi- fication for calling the spikes significantly different needs to be done. A couple of simultaneous hits can give a spike randomly.
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A Judge said
- Good effort. What (this year) was done on a sc, though? - Ascertaing causes and relevance of "spikes" is problematic w/ experimental validation - Overall excellent effrot-- what happened to Team 182, though?
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A Judge said
When performing staticical analysis, it is customary to produce the error in your estimate. Also, does your model predict the future? If so, how well? What is the error bound?
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A Judge said
Nice report. Correct time series.
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A Judge said
Nice report and explanation of figures. I like the way you had to troubleshoot your memory problem. Nice job in finding that!! I'd like to hear more about your analysis.
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A Judge said
Did not incorporate any interim guidance or advice. An enormous -- almost overwhelming -- amount of data, but not certain of the substance. Unsure of focus. Blaming 15 minute spikes in gamma dose on the equipment should be verifiable. Integration is lacking. Why Appendix C?
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A Judge said
Well done. This is an excellent final report. Good research design and description of the project. I would like to read more about the interpretation of the results. Worthy of an award
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A Judge said
This project is a credible effort, but I would have liked to seen a deeper understanding of the modeling that was used. The Shannon index is related to the "entropy" of the species population, and the formula for H is discussed heavily in textbooks on thermodynamics. It would have been nice to see a connection there. The project isn't quite computationally sophisticated enough for the challenge, but I found the work informative and interesting. I hope the students continue with their interests in this area.
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A Judge said
The program seems a bit brute force, which indicates a fundamental lack of understanding on just what it is doing. It is not clear the team really knew what was going on. The program could have been much smaller given better organization and programming skills. Thus, it might appear to do more than it really does.
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A Judge said
Computed diversity index, useful to current on-going research. Code well-documented. Interesting project, good background info.
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A Judge said
Even though the project as is is not a supercomputing project, its use on a grander scale would need a supercomputer. Also, the final report is well written.
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A Judge said
Report needs to be proofread. Appropriately simple code written to calculate a specific problem. It was nice to see the team hang in there after the lost of team member.
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A Judge said
This is an excellent science project and would be a very fine science fair exhibit. But it is not long on supercomputing nor modelling. They have done some excellent research on the Gila ecosystem and should be commended.
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A Judge said
Not much computing involved. Can you look at how the different sites are related and model the situation to find reasons for the different diversity indices seen? I would be very interested to see if a repeat of the diversity index measurements turned out the same -- one measurement at each location is pretty poor statistics.
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A Judge said
This was a good science fair project, but the computing aspect fell a little short. I really liked it, but I'm not sure it's a top supercomputing project.
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A Judge said
Good topic! What did students really do, however? Was coding it? (That's OK, but make sure this is evident to reader!) Their own code, or revision of someone else's? Either's OK but state it!
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A Judge said
The borders used in the final report were distracting. How would you use this model to predict fish population over a period of years/decades?
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A Judge said
Developed from Science Fair project. Nice report and good research project. Supercomputer use?
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A Judge said
I was not clear, after reading this report, on the importance of the Shannon index or how it was derived and why this team didn't examine alternate methods of calculation. Appendix A seemed to be extraneous to the importance of this project. Sections of the report contained information better placed elsewhere. Nice report presentation format.
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A Judge said
Nice idea. One thing to remember is to know your reader. Explain your terms with the average reader in mind. For example, what is a diversity index? Explain that in the beginning before you use the term. Also, start your report with a "big picture" perspective of what your are trying to accomplish and why, and then go into the detail.
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A Judge said
Though well done, I question the line of demarcation between Mr. Miller's funded study and the students' activities. "The fish were released..." -- did they all survive? Spelling -- due, not do; insight, not incite. Well researched.
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A Judge said
Good basic research. The report does not define "t-cell" which might be important. "Drug" any drug or specific ones? The use of the super computer could be explained. Findings are interesting. Generated data or something from CDC?
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A Judge said
This project is a novel application of the popular predator/prey model to the study of the course of AIDS in a human host. I would have liked to see more information on the source of the equation used to model the cell populations. The work done so far is a very good start for a project, but I think a more complete study of the effects of varying the input parameters of the model could have been very inetresting. The graph in Appendix B is perfectly adequate. It wasn't necessary to support it with another 30 pages of numbers.
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A Judge said
Not very original. Report overly padded with appendicies. Software not very complex.
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A Judge said
Well written, well researched topic. Well documented program. Students understand limits of modeling. did not explain the necessity of supercomputer.
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A Judge said
Plotting the results is much more useful than including a large data file in a final report. It would be interesting to hear about the results of this project in more detail.
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A Judge said
Predetor/prey concept was a good one. Good code comments. WOuld of been nice to have more explaination of where the constants came from that were used.
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A Judge said
An interesting idea for a project. Their model doesn't account for the virus population. It's inclusion would allow for more interesting behavior of the model. The report is not well-organized and not enough details appear. Also they don't attributed the appendix included in the back.
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A Judge said
This looks to be just a fox & rabbit model with no relation to the reality of the HIV situation. You need to compare your results to actual data of desease progression in AIDS patients to see if your theory has any meaning at all and to calibtate your constants.
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A Judge said
The report didn't do justice to the work. The algorithm appeared to be more complex than it did at first sight, but there wasn't much explanation. There were only 4 pages of text and 50+ pages of numbers.
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A Judge said
Good effort! SC used? Correlation of your results w/observed statistics?
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A Judge said
Nice idea to use fox/rabbit for t-cell It would be helpful to present more of the results (like the graph) within the document, instead of in an appendix
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A Judge said
Good report and research. Use more realistic medical data
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A Judge said
It doesn't seem to be scientifically sound to use a method of calculation that you know is incorrect. Appendix B of this report contains a lot of extraneous information.
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A Judge said
I like your idea here. What other variables could you consider? I am thinking of the initial health of the individual. Does that affect life expectancy? Also, be sure to explain your terms and units. For example, what is the difference between the unit of drug being a 1 and a 2? Is that the dosage?
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A Judge said
Appears to be a very well-rounded project utilizing research opportunities, computer resources, experts. Need help in understanding Appendix B and would prefer to see data such as that represented graphically.
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A Judge said
Stress and body mass. very interesting study. I am impressed by the response to the survey. The data is analyzed by the supercomputer. Findings are consistent with my reading. The final report should have done more to describe the project. Short with all the program and code information.
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A Judge said
This is a fine project. It may not have been the most computationally challenging one I have seen, but the students laid out a plan and carried it through. I am impressed they actually succeeded in getting answers back from their questionnaire. That may be a first! It appears the students understand what they have done, and I think they learned a lot from their project. Good job.
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A Judge said
Another nice SCIENCE FAIR project. The group didn't seem to really understand what the software did. Report padded with lots of extra material.
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A Judge said
Interesting topic, well written. Students understand correlation. very nice diagrams. Students converted program from Fortran to C++.
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A Judge said
Plotting the results is much more useful than including the actual correlaton results of Appendix C in the final report. It would be interesting to hear about the results of this project in more detail.
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A Judge said
Not a clear definition of correlation.
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A Judge said
An interesting topic with apparently a lot of research behind it. Not a really good example of supercomputing. However, the students did set down a hypothesis, collected data, and concluded that the hypothesis was flawed. Good work altogether.
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A Judge said
You say that Phase I disproved the hypothesis... but then you insist that more data and different analysis techniques would surely show the expected correlation. On what do you base that? In science, the results dictate your conclusions, not the other way around. I hope I just misunderstood what you were saying.
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A Judge said
I couldn't quite figure this report out. The math presented seemed to be complex, but not cleary explained.
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A Judge said
Good effrot! Any hypotheses on why correlation failed... your results vs what you thought would happen? & actual data?
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A Judge said
it would seem that many variable affect a person, more than one. The linear regression model can be used in the multiple linear regression model to better fit the data.
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A Judge said
Nice report and good research project
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A Judge said
Table of Contents should include page numbers. Statistical analysis to prove lack of correlation is good and dot plots of results for each category are helpful but I'm not sure I agree with the process used to reach your conclusions.
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A Judge said
Interesting investigation. I like your stress survey. How do you explain the outlyers on your scatter plots? Any ideas on why some ages are more centered and some are more distributed?
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A Judge said
I question the hypothesis but admire the process and the self-taught FORTRAN class and the results. Well done, contemporary, original and innovative use of all available resources.
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A Judge said
Better luck next year.
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A Judge said
One of many projects whose premise is to run a survey and analyze the results. These do not tend to be very computationally intensive, and so will require considerable thought on the part of the students in understanding their data. Good luck with continuing the project.
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A Judge said
This would be a nice Science Fair project, but does not contain anything fundamentally related to supercomputing.
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A Judge said
How does this tie in to Navajo? Is there a genetic predisposition, or a different diet? Is there a correlation? I hope to see more on this next year - interesting.
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A Judge said
It would probably be helpful to try and talk to some experts in this field of research. They will be helpful in directing you to some references which calculate probabilities, etc.
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A Judge said
May want to continue looking at risk factors in the literature and then modify surveys to reflect what you know you can put in the computer code.
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A Judge said
The students have done a great deal of research into their topic. They have learned a great deal. Their idea for a computer code interactively identifying risk factors is a good one, but it will require a lot of data.
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A Judge said
Does this project really justify a high power computer?
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A Judge said
Good start. Could be a very good project. Recommend using a multivariate approach (interaction of multiple variables simultaneously)for determination of diabetes risk... -- age -- sex -- family history -- weight -- etc. Considering these factors simultaneously will require work but the results will be realistic (consideration of factors separately will have little real value to your community). Lots of people on the web can help. CDC, UNM Health Sci dept, Diabetes web sites, usenet user groups, etc. Tap into all these, tell them waht you'd like to do, and you'll probably find several people willing to help with code, ideas, etc.
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A Judge said
A model to start with would be multiple linear regression where you can manage multiple factors to help predict an outcome
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Keeping working
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A Judge said
I hope this team expands on this topic for participation in next year's Challenge.
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A Judge said
I really like what you are trying to do here. I wish you the best in completing it,and I hope all of you will continue your interest and concern in public health!
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A Judge said
It's an interesting -- though broad -- topic. Suggest exploring one or two dietary/nutritional variables and comparing them. See you next year and good luck.
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A Judge said
Well done, good research report. The manipulation of variable was explained. Conclusion weak, with an obvious finding.
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A Judge said
This is a very reasonable project. The students show the results of a lot of research, they completed a program and obtained results, and devoted some effort to understanding and interpreting their results. Good job.
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A Judge said
Not bad - graphs missing unids, and the results need more analysis and interpretation. One of the few reports that was really well written.
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A Judge said
Interesting, relevant topic. Used 6 variables, but studied separately...good! Documented program. Good graphs, tables need to be labeled.
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A Judge said
This project looks at the rate of a fire spread as a function of many variables. Even though it is not a supercomputing project as is, I think that it would make an interesting presentation.
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A Judge said
Appropriate use of graphics to see relationships. Usually would say rate of spread vs moisture content and surface area .
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A Judge said
These students are looking into a topic with direct relevance to them. They have uncovered an empiricism for the burn rate, but they are only using the supercomputer to explore the behavior of the equation alone. I would have liked to see them use this equation to time march a burn front across a two-dimensional that has varying terrain, vegetation, etc. THAT would have been cool. This has potential to be a really good project.
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A Judge said
A simple enough project to allow completion. It would be nice if you could model the conditions for a real forrest area -- given the terrain, current forrest and weather conditions, you could predict the locations where starting a fire could cause the most damage (so such areas could be closed), or the locations where starting a fire would cause little damage (for doing controlled burns). This could be very useful.
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I thought that this was pretty well done. I would have liked more explanation of the variables, which seemed to change from the formula to the "glossary". I think that the report could have represented the work done a little better. But overall, it was good.
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A Judge said
excellent work. fine project! What are unite of fire spread velocity? ft/min or ft/sec? units not apparent from paper! Overall very good!
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A Judge said
Your team demonstrated tenacity in your research to achieve a good operating mathematical model from existing resources. The challenge selected was one with great relevance and value to your community and to New Mexico and the nation. You constructed a reasonable program to execute your challenge and arrived at some interesting conclusions and pointed out where further development on your program could be continued.
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A Judge said
Nice report. Has good scientific methodology It would be nice to have some figures within the paper to better understand the report instead of being in an appendix
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A Judge said
Good completed project. Used library and computer resources. Used Lynx, Internet and Interlibrary loan. Good graphs. Overall good report.
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A Judge said
Nice research effort. Good presentation of results.
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A Judge said
I like the way you verified the results of your code with common sense, ie more moisture, less spread. I am unclear as to what your table represents. What numbers are what? I'd like to see more output of your code and an explanation of those results.
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Interesting topic; focused approach. Incorporates all the elements of the NM HS SCC requirements. Believe the students learned a lot! Well done!
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This would be an interesting exercise, if the students had been able to complete the calculation.
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No Results. Bad writing.
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A Judge said
No conclusive results. Wrote some code. I do not understand where supercomputer calculations are necessary. I would have recommended this be a category B.
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A Judge said
How does a surface energy rate compare to the total energy in a volume? Comparing apples to oranges.
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A Judge said
These students have made good use of the internet in their research. They really haven't done any supercomputing and the end result that want is a little confusing.
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A Judge said
Why compare a cubic photosphere of the Sun with a gallon of gasoline? What is the equivalence here that makes that a valid comparison?
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A Judge said
Please use a spell checker on the report. You did some good work in researching the subject but needed a lot more work on the algorithm and code to have a great project. Keep up the good work.
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A Judge said
- Talked about but didn't list references. Shoulf be LOTS available. - Your topic limited you. It is essentially just a calculator problem. At Interim Judging we told you this. - You didn't list the equation you used. - Poor topic choice. Good research paper, however.
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Your initial question leads the mind in many interesting directions, the essence of educational and intellectual pursuit. The dynamics of your challenge seemed to be beyond your immediate grasp. Consider your process in developing the project and analyze where you could have refined or redefined your scope which would have allowed more conclusive results. You put your arms around an important question. I hope you can continue developing the project next year. If not, learn from this experience as you enter college or whatever your career goals may be.
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Need to spell check your title... It is wise to "create" data to check your program. Don't let lack of data stop you from continuing on your project
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Not a completed project. Need to finish researching the topic.
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Table of Contents should include page numbers. Lack of headers on sections make this report difficult to read. Please expand on the topic and participate in next year's Challenge.
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I really like your idea of comparing the sun's energy to gasoline. I like that you are comparing it to something we can all understand and conceptualize. That is wonderful and a great learning tool!! Your report seems incomplete to me. How are you modeling this? What does your code actually do? Where are your equations?
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This bears little resemblance to a final report and contains a dearth of information.
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A Judge said
better luck next year
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Category B, the formulas found and/or the time required to work on the project exceeded the students' other commitments. Too bad, I hope you can try again next year.
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This project idea isn't bad. If the team can get to the point of really understanding the material, they could develop a good model and potentially have a good project.
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An interesting idea. If you have time, try it out next year!
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Suggest getting with Dr Jame Ogle at LANL, a fiber optic cable expert.
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Oh well sometimes things just don't work. I hope these students have a few hairs left after the SCC. Gook luck.
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- Recommend you get help from UNM or NMSU phys dept, or an optical engineer at a communications company (these would be your best potential sources of help). Might also find help on usenet. - Lots of help sources available, but remote to you. use the net / usenet!
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The team has a good idea. I would look at "lens" refraction and reflection to start out with.
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Glad to read that you still have some hair left. Keep working on project.
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Hope this team will find more time to participate in next year's Challenge.
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Good idea and nice start!! Your topic will lend itself to an interesting investigation.
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Lacking.
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Excellent final report. Heavy emphasis on the library materials. I did not see a great amount of computer simulation to determine how much stress a building could take before falling down. These students learned much about tornados and computing given their location and resouces.
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The students here are on the path to completing a successful project. They have properly realized, when it was necessary, that they needed to modify their objectives to be consistent with the practicality of what can be done in the time available. No significant results of their programming were available. I hope the students will continue with their interests in this area.
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While this may be an interesting and relevant topic, there really is no computing involved. This code is simply a fancy calculator.
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Interesting topic as I am from Oklahoma (tornado alley). Students recognized need to limit variables and scope. Internet sources were documented. Good teamwork documented. Do not understand need for supercomputer.
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There has been some code written since the interim report, but the project is not developed enough to be competitive.
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These students are using a computation of the stagnation pressure to evaluate the force of wind on structures. They have a code but it is just a function evaluator. They have looked into tornadoes extensively and done some good research there. They have also used the internet pretty well. A good effort.
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Not computing intensive -- simple pressure differential times area. What about windows? If the windows are open, or blow out easily, will this have an effect on lowering the pressure differential and saving the structure? How big would the windows/doors/openings need to be to be effective?
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You did a lot of research on the subject of tornadoes, but I am not sure that the approach that you used is valid. Pressure differences are important. Perhaps the program could calculate pressure due to wind velocities and pressure differences. Which is greater?
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This project has some interesting extensions. For example, what is the airflow around the tornado? How close can you get to a tornado and not get sucked in? What happens to an object as it floats up through the tornadoa shaft?
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Good report and research. Keeping working on program
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Documentation needs more explanation of why Bernoulli's Equation was used as basis for calculation. Team seems to have good basic understanding and relayed this in report. I look forward to seeing an expansion on the principles relayed in the report with an increased understanding of the process used in next year's Challenge.
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Good description of why buildings explode during a tornado!! I like the way you worked your formula and included the area of the building face. Any ideas for how you would implement architecture into your model? Would it be a constant multiplier, or would it have even more effect on the outcome than the area hit?
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You're wise to consider materials. Lost of research, few results. Supporting documentation somewhat superfluous. Good luck next year.
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Report is well done from a library perspective. What was the supercomputer used for? What are the results? Data at the end of the report was not generated by the computer.
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The programming here, and the underlying modeling, is not really sophisticated enough to be a contender for the challenge, but I think the students learned the basics of what they needed to do to put a project together. Good job.
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A computer program should add value - calculate something. The entire purpose of this program could more effectively be served with a simple paper table.
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Where do the input probabilities come from? Do not understand need for supercomputer. Little documentation in program.
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The project is not really developed enough to make it competitive with other projects.
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Writing needs to be proofread.
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They've done plenty of research on this topic and written a simple program. Good work , but it is not supercomputing. They also need to proofread their report.
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Computer code is too simple -- just looks at state. How about including time of year, current weather conditions, type of building, etc., in determining your chances?
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I'm glad you got some code written. You also have done a good deal of work researching some tornado facts. However, the computational aspects of the programs are limited to a table look up. Keep at it, though.
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- Good research! Little in the way of utilization of a supercomputer, however.
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This seems very much like team 125..... When doing predictions, it is customary to include the error ananlysis which indicates how confident you are with the the prediction.
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Good project. Work on developing output.
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This project needs more explanation of the process used and an increased emphasis on programming. Not much computer simulation or calculation included with this project. This team has picked a topic that is consequential for their community and I hope they can expand on their participation in next year's Challenge.
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Interesting idea,and nice work here. But be careful with your title. Your title is "what are your chances of surviving" and your research results in "what are your chances of being hit." What factors would help a person survive?
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All research, no math, code, results.
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Better luck next year.
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This Category B project plans to forecast pollutant levels in water. The project could be interesting, and I hope the students will continue to work on it.
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Not a very good project for supercomputing. Simply gathering data and performing simple analysis is not computing.
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Students did some of their own fieldwork and have a good problem definition. I hope to see it next year.
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I think that it is great that you have some actually acquired some data that you hope to analyze. The next step is to develope a plan on how to develope your code. This will also be a lot of work!
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Need to think about what equations you will use to predict the future now that you have your data. Will you consider diffusion?
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This is an excellent idea for a project. The students have done extensive field work. Perhaps the supercomputer could be used for statistical analysis of the data. They should continue the project in subsequent years.
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- Good ideas. To make this a potential winner, You MUST... -- do plenty of research (LOTS is out there) -- come up with a VALID supercomputer problem -- this WILL REQUIRE learning some about water chemistry -- I suggest you get help from an environmental engineer with a water quality background! - The topic may be a hard one to find a good "supercomputer problem" for. Predicting future pollution based on past/curretn trends (extrapolation) is solely a calculator problem. Design of a pollution abatement system for a water treatment plant (incl sensors, control loops to add chemicals to neutralize or precipitate out pollutants is a PC problem (PC's ARE used for this)-- although it can be made into a far superior NMSCC project than predicting future pollution levels. Modelling recovery of an aquatic environment from past pollution (with & without human intervention) may make a good topic, but it may also be quite difficult. These are some ideas/guidelines for you to consider. - The BEST advice I can give you is to look at previous years' finalists' reports... Some are exceptionally difficult projects-- don't be intimidated by them. Many are very understandable conceptually, but elegantly executed-- and THAT is what you're looking for!
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Fluid flow problems can be simplified to get you off of the ground. a simply 2-d grid with flow vectors can help with the fluid dispersion.
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continue to work on project.
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This team has a good strategy to validate calculational results with experimental. I look forward to seeing an expanded and completed project included in next year's Challenge.
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You have a good start here. I'm glad you haven't abandoned your efforts.
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Rhetorical in nature, political in platform. Bears little resemblance to a final report or supercomputing activity; more pertinent to a Science Fair, perhaps.
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Excellent piece of research. Research methods - OK data analysis appears good results/conclusion not reported very well
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This project demonstrates considerable care and thought in a fairly complex programming task. The project would have been better if the researcher had argued for the relevance of this work to areas such as flight simulation.
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The objective of this project, navigation of a terrain, was clear, but I could not follow the report and could not tell how much progress was really made. I had hoped to see more pictures of the path an object took to navigate some representative terrain! Perhaps the other judges closer to this project will help me understand how much was accomplished.
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Very interesting topic I'd like to see the output of this Could use more details about the terrain pathfinder sofware (second part of problem)
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Good general explanation of program solution in report. Use of internet well documented. Good figures produced by his program. Program needs more internal documentation.
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Sounds interesting. Would like to the program at work.
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Is the path defaulted to a straight line down the middle? I wasn't clear on the ability of the program to navigate in the sense of making a decision on which way to go. Could use more comments in the program. I could see that the program alowed one to visualize where they were in a terrain.
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good project,solid work -- could have shown more results
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Great project. Shows originality, thought, use of the internet, and considerable effort. Best of all it seems to work. I would like to talk to this young man.
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Cool project. I would have liked a better explanation of what fig. 5 was. Also, you did not describe the navigation algorithim in any detail, or show an example of the route chosen by the software, which would have been nice.
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I appreciate the problem, but I did not see any results. Were there any cases in which it was hard to navigate? Which parts of the code were written by the team?
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- Good research and references. Report OK. Overall strong effort!
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A completed project worthy of further evaluation.
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Excellent work. Very thorough project development. Good starting point and accessible data from USGS made project worth pursuing. You understood your parameters and created a dynamic program.
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Unless processor time is important to your project, it is not necessary to give specific times for a particular part of your project. In otherwords, unless you are trying to improve on that part of the algorithm, it is not necessary to write about the time it takes to read in.
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Stated goal not realized. Develop computer model to navigate a terrain. Conclusions should be based on results of testing.
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Good Super Computer Challenge problem. Project description succinctly and precisely described. Would have liked to see expansion of description of applications and research areas by other researchers.
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Nice idea. I like you description of the 3 phases of the project. I'd like to see a more thorough explanation of your data structures and algorithms for navigation. Good use of the web to obtain your data files!
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Tremendous effort & excellent use of electronic resources
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Good research report, seems to miss the super computer idea. Focus seems to on building the arm and hand
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The goal of this project is quite impressive, but the eventual outcome does not seem especially relevant to the task of cleaning up waste. In other words, this could just as easily have been a lab experiment with the same results. Also, I am unclear about the programming; at one point the report states that "a written program had been accomplished previously..." Who wrote this program?
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Another project that was difficult to understand exactly what was done fo rthe challenge. It sounds like the students succeeded in writing a program to interface with a robot arm, but I was not able to see if they got everything to work or not. The report was poorly proofread, and that made it harder to read.
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This is no doubt a VERY impressive science fair project, but it is NOT a supercomputer challenge project. The code doesn't really do any significant computing. The real effort was in the hardware. The report is very poor - needed pictures, a list of just what they could do, what computing actually would do.
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Students weren't discouraged by field experts and did put together something. Students also learned a few other things about networks and cellular phones. I did not understand why a supercomputer was needed. I would like to see this project presented in Los Alamos.
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Interesting, but is it supercomputing? Should include references in final report.
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Need a demonstration of program, or a clearer description of what it does in the report. Can they show that it controls the robot?
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Code suffers from lack of comments. Instead of telling how great the Robot is it would of been better to describe specifically what functions had been programmed and their limitations.
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This a difficult problem this team has tackled. I cannot from their report tell whether their robot does anything at all or whether this is what they expect it will do.
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There was mention of being able to simply command the robot to do independent tasks and about having the machine think for itself, but there was no detailed discussion of these capabilities or the programming involved. Diagrams would have been helpful.
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There didn't seem to be much scientific content and no algorithm or computations detailed. Pretty cool project, but better for a science fair.
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- What was done on a supercomputer? - NICE Science Fair project! Lots of work! But is this really a NMSCC project? - References? Some alluded to, but none listed-- LOTS available!
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This one needs to be seen by all the judges.
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Your team demonstrated long-term commitment and a focus which is evident in your final report. You leveraged various resources to successfully complete your project, which is perhaps the greatest lesson for each of you as you head out into the world. Good job.
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I think this is a very fun and exciting project. however, the current project has not much computing involved yet. When the robot gets smarts, it will have to have more computation
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Excellent collaboration. Definitely should continue developing robot. Unclear on how supercomputing resources are used.
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Theory not well stated or obvious. Pictorial documentation of functioning robot would help reader to understand more fully what was involved in this project. Team members seem excited about topic and hope to see them in next year's Challenge.
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This is a nice application of embedded controls! How does it apply to the supercomputers? Keep up your interest in embedded controls! There is a HUGE market in dire need of firmware engineers.
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Program written by whom?? Don't quite get Supercomputing connection, although it's a nice piece of robotics research. Please do show it to Pat Eiker. You also have typo problems.
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Good research report. Very good research. Terms were defined, methods and results explained. Well done
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excellent report and project, especially because of the team's decision to generate all of their own code, not relying on any "external" code for the project. What was the graphics package recommended by Professor Angel? What are the educational benefits of this system, were it to be implemented?
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Page 8 was missing from my copy of the report. This project has the potential to be very challenging, and yet I think it is possible to make good progress. All I see here is the listing of a program and some hand-drawn figures. I cannot tell how much was really obtained in the way of results. How about showing some ray-tracing of light paths through a microscope or telescope? A credible effort, good job, but not quite a finalist for me.
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Very impressive. Would like to see more output examples.
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Students wrote their own software in C++ and ported to the Cray successfully. The report gave a good general description of the program and the program was internally well-documented.
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Nice report, but maybe not involved enough to be competitive.
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This team has come a long way from the interim review--good work!
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How come examples of graphics and ray traces weren't included as examples of performance? Ideas seemed sound.
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An interesting project with an original concept. I am having a little trouble understanding what they did and what their results were.
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Fairly simple simulation. It would be much more useful if you could include the effects of reflection and refraction from more complex shapes.
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What exactly were the results? If the main object was the construc- tion of a demonstration program, then is there any scientific application?
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- Nice project, but 4 parameters (A, B, C, & D) not related to std physics (optics) variables or eqns. - Overall good efort!
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Excellent Final Report. One of the best I've seen so far in my evaluation process. Thank you for your care and attention to detail.
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This project is light on computation, but it reflects a lot of hard work. I think the "tools" to be developed can be very interesting
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Developed code and migrated it to Cray. Good Project. Good use of Internet resources.
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Enjoyed reading this report. Your research was done in a thoughtful and enthusiastic manner. Provision of graphical representation of the optical experiments modeled by your code would make a world of difference in this project.
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Very clear definition of your project!! Good definition of motivation and application for it as well. I like your background section - it communicates a good understanding of your concept. I would like to see the same kind of treatment and explanation of your data structures and algorithms. How did you represent a light ray? Why did you choose that representation?
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All goals accomplished. Viable use of supercomputing capabilities; a tremendous amount of work.
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The topic is interesting but the report does not cocntain sufficient detail to judge the merits of the research. What mathematical model is being used and where did it come from? Why wouldn't a statistical model do just as well?
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No program shown, or computation results obtained, as best I can tell. Good idea, but as described the goals are probably beyond what can be done within the time limitations of the challenge.
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Nice report. No results. Not really clear what the code would have done if it had worked.
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Interesting problem, too bad no results. Students had a good collection of facts and figures, but no working simulation.
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Explanation of code is lacking. Need references in final report.
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Did well in defining conclusions from the limited amount of output that you have!
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Background information was good, need a better description of code.
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This group has chosen a very complicated system to model. It is not surprising they are having trouble.
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You make lots of claims about environmental damage but your results do not back them up. Such claims without evidence do not reflect well on people wanting to do serious scientific study of the environment. Should you consider the oceans? Doesn't the oxygen generation of the sea plants far outstrip the land forests, makin them the real lungs of the planet?
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Please include the algorithm to be used along with the code written. You did a good job on the background, just need some more work on the computational aspects.
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- Good topic, but research appears to be lacking. LOTS available. - Equation & 4 parameters (A, B, C, D) not explained or related to standard optics equations.
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Your final report lacked descriptions about the software program your team created to generate your outcome. The report was an interesting read but should include more details about how you solved the programming challenge.
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This poject could be best served by using the "fox and rabbit" paradigm where foxes eat rabbits where there are many. Foxes die when there are few Also, instead of trying to find all the data, it is ok to assume the data to make your coputer project work well
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Redefine scope of project? Need to locate more data.
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Enjoyed reading this report. Even though you weren't able to obtain results, it is evident from this report that the research is well on its way and perhaps will contribute to next year's project.
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I like your motivation for and explanation of your project. What are your thoughts as to why your simulation didn't work? What formulae did you use in the simulation? I'd like more information about the algorithm.
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Good research on rain forests but no substantial computing.
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Why is change equated with damage? Major contradiction in definition of intensity in section describing waves and the description in the investigation section. Mthods -- divide into regions, why, how? Library research limited The whole state is treated as one unit with the same geology.
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The project did not do adequate research on the topic of earthquakes. Practicing geologists today use several methods other than the ones described, to measure the intensity of an earthquake. These are all available from the USGS Web site. There are in fact equations used to model the effect of waves in materials of different density and it is too bade the team was unable to locate them.
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This project describes a good effort at the challenge, but there is not enough discussion of the parameters and algorithms used for me to be able to tell exactly what was done.
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Some real code, but needed to get real data. Could have tried to generalize the model, rather than just making up arbitrary data.
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Students made up all their own data? Not sure how valid this is. The program was well documented and they achieved graphical results.
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A substantial amount of work was done for this project since the interim report. I am impressed that some results were obtained. Explanation of the results could be more detailed. In general, though, a well written report.
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Didn't stop going when couldn't find the necessary information. Topological map was an interesting fall back. Good use of graphics to show intensity.
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While they havn't produced "cutting edge" results, I think this team understands the problem that they have cut out. I particularly like the efforts they went to to approximate data (the rock density) when field data was not available.
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no results
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They have done some extensive research on earthquakes but the nature and physics behind their simulation is unclear.
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I liked the idea that this team did not get stuck trying to find the perfect algorithm, but made up their own. However, having done that, there was no explanation of the algorithm. I'd like to see it. This actually is a great step for a team to make. Go ahead and make some assumptions and see where it leads!
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- Research? Should be lots available through Interlibrary Loan. Did you try usenet groups? Should be able to get help there too. - What does your code do in reference to your problem? Why didn't it work? Did you try PC runs first before uploading to a supercomputer? - Good effort
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The project is interesting. The final report needed to clarify use and challenge of the supercomputer.
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Nice project. A better description of the computer code and how the P-wave was distributed via the code would have been nice The paper seems to be organized well
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Good start. Well written report. Used Internet. Created model. Program needs to be refined. Contact geologist.
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Lots of good research done on this project to help get a head start on next year's Challenge. Good strategy to create equation to test programming techniques.
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Good definition of what you're trying to do with this project. I'm glad you chose a realistic goal, like modeling the wave. I am unclear as to your algorithm and formula for the changing density of the wave. How did you represent the wave? I would like to see more explanation here.
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Good basic earthquake info, but lacking depth. Where is supercomputing capability utilized?
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Very good report The methodology should be explained in more depth. Major limitation -- one year of data. Whcih compromises the conclusion. Very interesting!
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While the idea for the project is good, it is too simple in terms of its modeling of reality. The teams' research should have uncovered other variables than average rainfall and I find it hard to believe they could not locate historical average yearly rainfall for New Mexico.
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This project has tabulated tornado probabilities for locations in New Mexico, and generated some plots. I am not sure what the programming effort was here, as no program is shown. The discussion of the original programming is a bit too vague for me. Was all the data fed to commercial programs, or was anything written for the challenge?? I think the students have learned a lot from their challenge experience.
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Interesting, relevant project, but I couldn't find any computing - just mapping data into graphs using canned software packages.
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Students understood other variables important. Figures need more explanation.
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I am not sure what the plotted results represent. A more detailed explanation would help.
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Investigation of a close-to-home problem was admirablw. How come the color data didn't follow the contours of the grid(at least in black and white?)
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nice graphical output
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They have done plenty of research on tornadoes and identified several sources of good information. However, the purpose and structure of their code is confusing.
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It's not clear what you were using for a model -- Why is tornado probability supposed to be related to rainfall amounts? Much rain can come from storms that are not violent enough to spawn tornadoes.
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I didn't see any explanation of an algorithm, so it was very hard to tell how effective the computational or scientific method was in this project.
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- Nice report, but... -- No code included -- Was precipitation the sole determining factor for tornado formation potential? Could runs have been done without it? -- Why do the "actual data" and program generated graphs look "geometric" when NM topography doesn't seem to fit with the observed patterns? Is this what's really observed (tornado occurrence distribution) or a programming artifact? - Good effort.
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More descriptions are needed with your graphics to explain what they tell the viewer. Such an interpretation is valuable. I encourage your team to continue developing your model next year, if possible.
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Nice scientific breakdown of NM. It is not clear how you decide when a tornada will occur. Using counts doesn't seem to be a good indicator of when a new tornadoa will occur. Doesn't weather have a lot to do with tornados?
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Continue to develop program. Good progress so far.
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Grammer needs editing in this report. Project description needs more definition. Accuracy of modeling is important in computer simulation. Very nice graphics.
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Good definition of your objective. You are right on about why you chose your topic!!! These creatures cause painful damage and loss of life with no warning! Where are your algorithms and calculations? Why do you think your results didn't match the data? First cuts at models often do not completely match data. The important next step is to figure out why and fine-tune your model.
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Well-written with good research - although many resources exist that could have proved helpful (i.e. annual rainfall for past 37 years). Also question supercomputing applicability.
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Excellent statement of problem Good discussion of theory or basic idea. Adequate description of methods Good report
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This project, at least in the report, does not seem to go beyond just plugging hypothetical numbers into know equations. Where is the modeling?
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The students were unable to complete their project, and maybe they will be able to work further on this project on their own. Some interesting ideas are expressed, I wish they had been able to get a bit further.
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Interesting idea, and the program might have given some interesting results, but it didn't work and there were no results.
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Interesting project idea - I've not heard this theory before. Students documented what they learned. No successful program yet, but they understood and explained need for the supercomputer in this project.
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It doesn't look like the physics is correct here....at least some further explanation of the assumptions made is necessary.
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Interesting premise.
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These students appear to have learned quite a bit about orbital mechanics and Newtonian gravitation. Their code is a little too basic to be classified as supercomputing.
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It's unclear what you actually intend to do and what simply calculating an orbit will tell you about the effects of the "death star".
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I did not follow exactly what was going on in this project. The equations were appropriate, but I didn't understand the explanations.
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- Equations listed in report appear incorrect (Fn = Ftot - Fsun not what was listed... etc.) - Did you try PC runs before uploading to supercomputer? Could help with understanding coding probs. Did you try calculator calcs for one set of data for a comparison point? - Incomplete analysis. More research needed. Good effort, however.
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Final report demonstrates quality of thought and presentation. The report could have described the current programming problems in getting the program to run at LANL. I hope to see your operational program in LA.
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Interesting project, although a little ambitious. To alleviate the problem of getting the C++ program working on the CRAY machine, I suggest you try getting simpler programs running first. you will learn a lot from getting the simple thins to run.
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Good report. Created Home Page and used Internet resources. Need to get program working on a supercomputer.
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I couldn't follow the logic of the research for this project. Team seems to have a basic understanding of the individual elements modeled but not of the relationships between those elements.
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Good try here! You show wisdom in recognizing the difference between a *theory* and a *fact.* The news media is always trying to confuse these two. Why do you think your code didn't run properly? What were the symptoms? Crashes? Core dumps? Incorrect results?
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Has potential, well constructed. Sound premises & principles with mathematical integration. Too bad about the program.
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Methods not explained. No results or conclusion
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It's not clear from the report what happened or where the problem was in the program that prevented them from completion of the project. Also, there is no evidence that any attenpt was made to get the program running.
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This project describes a very original idea, but the students were not able to get to the point of having a working program. I hope they keep working on it -- I think there's some fun awaiting.
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A different idea. Might have been good, but no results.
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No actual results from the computer documented, but a program was attached? Interesting problem.
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Is the slingshot method of calculation really necessary? Also, need references in the final report.
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Unique concept.
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These students are using the computer to solve, iteratively, a simple algebra problem. A useful introductory programming exercise, but not supercomputing.
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The increased warming of Titan will not occur so much because of the SIZE increase of the Sun as it becomes a Red Giant, but will be because the LUMINOSITY of the Sun will increase then. An analytical solution is possible for this calculation -- computer is not needed.
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The report did not present much in the way of algorithms used or any explanation of the project.
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- Need more research. Interlibrary Loan through UNM, NMSU, etc., could help. Usenet groups might have yielded contacts willing to help, also. - Did you attempt to ascertain why your code didn't run? Did it run on a PC? Did you try calcs on a calculator for comparison? - Incomplete analysis. Good effort, however.
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Final report should have gone into details about why the program would not function. Interesting project.
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It is not clear how the radius is chosen. Does the computer reselect the radius or does the user? A longer writeup on your methodology would be helpful
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Continue work on computer program.
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Some of the scientific logic presented in this report is flawed. Additional research needed to support thesis.
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Neat idea!! Your definitions are clearly explained! However, the algorithm is not thoroughly explained in your report. What are your calculations? What do you think was wrong? Why didn't your code run? Bugs are to be expected. The next step is to trace them down.
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Nice project idea but needs mathematical and computational validation.
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Good research Results limited due to code input. If all of the algorithms had been written and entered the results would be more significiant. Good report
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As a learning exercise, this project was successful. However, the original goals were not accomplished and this appears to be due to lack of planning and anticipation of the time required to do the programming. There is no adequate explanation of the role that GPS would have played in this project nor any description of the technical consideratiosn necessary to do so.
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This project poses an interesting and original challenge, but the students seem to have been overly dependent on the availability of their technical advisor. Too bad. Some good initial work was done.
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Potentially useful idea, but I didn't see any output to show that the program ran and actually gave any results.
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Students compared results to actual known results, but no output given in report. Code not well documented. Students limited scope to 3 vs 25 variables. The problem is very practical.
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I am not sure why the GPS system is useful for this project....some more explanation of a GPS system for this application would help.
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Tried to solve a practical problem that was downscaled to an appropriate level.
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Although this students have an interesting and potentially beneficial notion here, their code is relatively simple and isn't really supercomputing.
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A useful project -- but it seems that the hardest part may be designing a easy to work with user interface than doing the calculations themselves (which hardly seem to require a powerful computer). Ho will you incorporate the GPS?
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I never did quite get the connection between GPS and fertilizer, unless it was to locate the area to be fertilized more accurately. The report needs to explain the connection in much more detail.
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- What is GPS used for? Never explained. - IAW your equations/code, elemental concentration appears to be solely a function of pH. This is not completely true. - Did code run on a PC? If not, why? Did you try to get results for ONE element by itself? It's easier to get code running by doing one thing before trying several. - Incomplete code/analysis/research. Good effort, however.
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Excellent and innovative challenge applied to agricultural industry. Carry your experiences working with this project into your college and career.
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This project has interesting extensions. For example, what happens when you fertilize for multiple years? What happens with extra rain This project has a couple of for-loops with some basic computation.
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Continue to develop, refine data and program.
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Interesting project and well thought out. Program has set infrastructure for continued work. Good validation done in this project.
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Farmers could definitely use this program! I would like to see more detail in your report. How did you derive these algorithms? What do they mean mathematically? Where did you get the constants in them/
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The GPS samplings would launch this into a fine supercomputing project; your ideas are innovative and hold potential.
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non competitive Needs more independent research. NASA will not provide all of the information needed for the study.
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It is unfortunate that the project did not get further because the topic is interesting. I'm puzzled though because the team admits that early on they learned they could not get the information needed, so why did they continue to pursue this topic?
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This project sounds to me like it was not completely thought through from the start. I think the reason they didn't get help from NASA, as they seemed to require to get started, is because the questions they are asking are too vague. Some more local technical advice in posing a tractable problem would have been helpful, I imagine.
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Not sure how "real" data would have helped. Need to develop some model based on theory, then compare model data to real data.
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Interesting idea to work on...but you need to expand it somehow into a supercomputing project. Also, you should include references in your final report.
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Maybe should change directions if unable to get data you need.
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This is good application of supercomputing and I see quite a number of things these students could do with their program, include gravity for example. They should definitely continue this project in subsequent years and continue their research into Newtonian mechanics.
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See: "Prospects for Interstellar Travel" by John H. Mauldin (1992) published by the American Astronautical Society.
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- Lots of literature is available on the topic, but Interlibrary Loan is probably your sole hope of accessing much of it. - Try the usenet. Should be users out there who'd be willing to help you! - What is your project goal? (determination of interstellar trip time?) State it explicitly. - Good potential project. Reserach effort will determine its strength next year.
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Team has generally defined boundaries and needs for continuing an interesting project next year. Getting in touch with NASA requires a certain ingenuity itself. I don't know much about it but NASA has and installation near Las Cruces and White Sands. Perhaps this could be a link to use for accessing NASA resources.
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The project stopped from lack of data. It is OK to assume data to continue the project
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Category B project...continue to collect data.
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Despite lack of success in gathering information, purpose of project is not entirely clear.
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Good idea and method! We may need this one day in the not too distant future!
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There are many web sites filled with info: Lockheed Martin, DOE, DOD, Boeing, Ariane, AirBus, Raytheon... Look to other sources, focus on one or two elements and this should be exciting for next year.
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The problem statement is very good. The methodology is not adequatley explained. Conclusion not clear.
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This is probably a good research project, but the final report was written in such a disorganized fashion that I had a hard time understanding it.
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This sounds like an interesting project, but I could not follow the discussion very well. How much was really accomplished? It sounds like the plan is to compress an already-compressed file (a *.zip file) to gain another factor of two or so in final file size. The compression shceme to be used is not discussed clearly enough, but if ZIP files are already essentially random bit strings, I rather doubt much additional compression is possible. I put this project into the class of projects are are "good ideas, but incomplete."
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They didn't explain clearly what the code actually did There was no code to look at. Needed to show real before/after results. All verbal, no code, results.
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I had several questions/concerns at interim report time and they were not addressed in the final report.
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An example of a simple file and how it was compressed using this method would help in this report.
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Since no code or details hard to tell if it really worked.
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This report is somewhat disorganized and unclear as to what these students are up to. However, I saw them in Portales and was fairly impressed by their ideas and grasp of the problem.
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It's unclear that this method can be useful in the real world if it takes so long to do a run on a high spedd computer that you did not get much testing done. Certainly needs more testing on a variety of files to see what the results really are.
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I liked this project but it needs a lot more explanation. You did not list any code. Also, the algorithm needs expansion. How much gain was normally seen in typical files? What affected the gain the most?
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- You claim lots, but show nothing. Where's your code? concrete examples of its efficacy? Is it applicable to other than WAV files (which should be at least partially repetitious), i.e. a text file? - What research was done? None is reported. - You appear to have done a lot of work and appear to have achieved your goal (further comperssion). What you submitted shows none of this, however. - Good effort!
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Innovative challenge perhaps even one with commercial appeal. Team organized itself around core issues and sought assistance through a broad network of resources. Defining the problem and preparing for its solution is key to success.
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How many files did you compress? What sort of files don't compress well with your algorithm? Which ones do compress well? An extension to this project would be to compare several file compression programs on several files.
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Expand project by processing additional files to test compress results
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Good idea to use two methods of compression, one on top of the other. I like that you had a metric to measure the compression. Where is your code?
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Too bad you didn't follow the format -- presenting all of your work would have been of great interest and probably put you in contention, if your research, math, and code are as good as your concept.
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Very good idea. I would like to see it developed.
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Since the report was too brief for any substantive comments to be made, none were.
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Category B, incomplete. If you are interested in learning more about firewalls, there is lots of information in the various electronic newsgroups, like comp.security.firewalls.
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This topic is not particularly a good one for the challenge. I'd suggest not putting more effort into it.
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Hard to get information on firewall systems. This project was difficult.
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Sounds as if it would be useful to talk to a few people who specialize in computer networking in order to formulate a project....one possibility is to call the University of New Mexico's Computer Information and Resource Technology Center (CIRT) at 505-277-4848. Someone there may be able to help you.
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To be tractable one might want to narrow the scope of this project to one aspect of the firewall.
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This is a very active field in computer science and would make an excellent supercomputing project. The students should stick with it for the next years
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What are the problems with currently available Firewall software that you feel need to be fixed by the code you would develop?
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- Research? What did you do beside write your report? Any coding? - Project has lots of potential IF you limit your scope some. Almost everybody either wants to make their systems hack-proof (ie.e lots of work is being done here and therefore, lots of literature should be available).
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Participation in these games provides a unique opportunity for all involved to benefit by learning new things. Perhaps most valuable from this exercise is the confidence and ability to pursue resources around New Mexico and far beyond, certainly not limited by geography. I encourage this team to delve into firewall security issues next year. Computer security is very important as the team noted.
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Using access lists, how would you go about proving that certain machines could make it into the firewall, while others could not What about when someone starts up an IRC and opens up a new port for services?
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Continue with the research...good topic
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Need more research. Perhaps team can expand on research done this year with more members participating next year.
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It is nice to see interest in this topic!! With all the "net surfing" folks do, and the sensitive files that are kept online now, this kind of security is very needed.
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Please check for content, context, and typos.
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Good idea. Keep working on the project
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There's really insufficient detail in the report to make comments on. It's an interesting project and it's too bad the team didn't get further. There is more recent information on the net about the topic, but it doesn't look like the team used the net for their research
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Incomplete, category B report. I can't imagine how the students would ever find the data they would need to accomplish this project. Maybe they should modify their goals a bit for next year.
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Not clear what the goal of the project actually is, need to get more specific.
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This project sounds very complicated... you may want to try and refine it to a simpler level.
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These students perhaps have chosen a very complex and difficult project. Perhaps they could obtain more results on a less ambitious but related project.
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You may want to try matching the observed expansion of a known supernova remnant, such as the Crab Nebula (good observations are available). Also, remember that he expansion of the supernova remnant could be speeding up from energy provided by a central pulsar, or slowing down due to interaction with interstelar gas.
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- Lots of research is available. Did you try to find any? - What are your hypothesized results? - Lots of potential? level of research will determine your success next year!
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I encourage this team to continue developing its idea for competition next year. Stars have held the imagination of peoples worldwide since the beginning of humanity. The team needs to consider how its idea ties into the supercomputer challenge, though, and to prepare and write code which will test your theories.
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the team could start out simply by chosing how fast particles would flow out in a line (ignoring anyother dispersions). The problem could then extend to a "fluid flow" problem
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Continue with your research
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This team did seem great research on the Internet on Supernovae phenomena. Hope to see this team in next year's Challenge.
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You've done some nice reading and research here. Keep up your enthusiasm for computing!
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Math?? Code?? Exec Summary??
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Problem statement very clear. Idea was well developed. Methods not adequately explained. Use of the superc-omputer not mentioned. Why 5 balls? Never justified.
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Insufficient information is given abot the programming task so no comments can be made.
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Although there is some verbal discussion of what would happen in an elastic collision, there is no program or computations shown here. This project is incomplete as it stands, but could be made into something interesting.
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No program No output No results Report in serious need of proofreading.
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No indication of a program. Report not well-written.
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What exactly does the code do? Need some explanation of this and some more details of the results. Also, should include references in the final report.
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Need to use a spell checker when using the word processor. Keep working on the graphical interface concept.
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This team has had the opportunity to learn some elementary physics. Their program however doesn't really qualify as supercomputing.
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Calculations of elastic collisions are simple enough that a powerful computer is not needed
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Please use a spell checker on the report write ups. Also, include the algorithm and code written in the report.
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- Research? Equations used? Code used/generated? NONE shown in report! - What were your results? Are they reasonable? - You appear to have done lots of work, but your report doesn't show it. - Good effort.
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No explanation of supercomputer solutions for calculating elastic collisions. Groundwork has been done to allow the team to complete its data gathering next year. More substantive research and validation testing needs to be incorporated into the final report.
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What is the processes you will follow to make this into a computer problem? Will you model the shpae of the balls while in the collision state?
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Continue working on the project
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Editing of this report would make it a more enjoyable reading experience. Would like to see and expansion of this project in next year's Challenge.
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You have the beginnings of a nice model here. But you need a clearer definition of what you are trying to do. Where are your equations and structures? Where is your code?
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Needs serious proofing, math, code, and formatting. Maybe re-visit the project using pool examples.
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Good basic study. Mole not defined. Very interesting study. I am not convinced that the basic assumption is valid. No mention of super-computer.
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The project is interesting but there are assumptions made that are not stated explicitly in the report that cast doubt on the validity of the findings. The major problem is the assumption that the relationships being modeled are linear. The team does not present any research to show this assumption is valid or that it makes sense.
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This project is a credible proposal of an interesting scaling calculation, but I think a lot more could have been done. You think it would be possible to put 2-3 people in every square meter of dry land? What fraction of the dry land is habitable right now?? I rather doubt the population will continue to grow at the 1-3%/year level for another 500 years. Why not?? How much farmland does it take to feed an average person?
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Project should investigate something realistic. The whole concept of this project is too simplistic - needs to make better assumptions of reality. The problem is so hard that it is not realistic to simplify it like this and get any reasonable results.
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Liked the way they attacked the problem - very innovative. Students recognized other variables existed. Code was well documented.
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Interesting idea, but maybe not supercomputing. Some further explanation of the code development would help.
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It was nice to see that the team realized that there were some unrealistic results.
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simple code and questionable physical assumptions, but they obtained the intended results
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These students have chosen an interesting topic to research. Perhaps they fail to consider other factors that might affect their final answer however. They have written a simple program, but it isn't supercomputing.
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Easy to understand concept. Does not seem to include simple tests in the code to make sure that the simulation stays reasonable (check to see if number of humans and/or plants exceeds the available land area of the Earth). People and forests also compete for space.
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The scientific basis for oxygen depletion was pretty weak. Long before a population density would reach that level, other factors would limit the population.
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- Research? Aren't there other factors affecting the rate of O2 depletion? (Your assumption of O2 depletion to be solely a function of human population is unreasonable.) - Was code run on a PC or supercomputer? If an SC, which one? - Good effort.
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The project was well-thought out and was in the capacity range for the team to complete a program. There is a delicate balance between selecting a challenge which is doable and yet remains challenging. Your team achieved this balance.
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Although the team created a program, the process could be written as a closed formula. The fox and rabbit addition would make this program more realistic.
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Very nice report. Good use of library resources. Continue to develop project.
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As you have already noted in your report, more variables in this simulation would make it more meaningful.
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What a scary thought!!! Good idea for investigation. I liked that you went ahead and made some assumptions so that the investigation could continue. I'd like to see a more thorough explanation of your algorithms and calculations. Did you include oxygen generation by plants?
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Good research and congratulations on teaching yourselves programming.
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"All" types of chemical reactions??????? Methods not explained Conclusion - "not possible" Chemical bonds are very complex and the computer program not adequate. Good lesson! Maybe next year
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The goal is commendable and the value of the research was to show how complex the goal is to reach. Unfortunately, there was no discussion on their programming.
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It sounds like the students learned a bit about chemistry in this project! As stated, their project is probably not tractable, but it could have been modified successfully. There was no program or computational results shown, only a verbal discussion.
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They claim to have done something interesting, but there is no evidence - no supporting code, no results - nothing to show they actually did something.
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Interesting project, but where's program? Should have been in report.
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Need some references and more explanation of the actual code in the final report.
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Need more details on what kind of user interface was provided.
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These students have chosen a quite complicated project to work on. A less ambitious project perhaps would have produced more interpretable results. Also their report is quite sketchy.
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The general problem appears to be much larger than anticipated. The simple ionic equations solved do not require a computer.
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Although this project was completed, the algorithm was extremely simplistic and basically was a table lookup.
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- Research? LOTS is available! How much chemistry have you taken? Your knowledge of the topic appears tentative. - Equations/algorithms/code used? - Incomplete. Good start, however.
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Program was not shared with judges. First view of project suggests the program to be overly simple, not challenging the supercomputer.
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How would the super computer be used in the covalent situation? Isn't there a set of reactions that can happen in the covalent situtation
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Project too broad. Limit the research to a narrower topic.
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Good start for next year's Challenge and prediction of covalent bonds.
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This is a good start, but there is not enough here. Where are your algorithms? Your code? I'd like to see more in your procedure write-up.
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Self-explanatory.
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Excellent project Needs additional help with methodology Next year!
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The topic is interesting and it's too bad the team was unable to make more progress. I think they should concentrate on factors other than medeical, like psychological and sociological, to see if there are relevant variables here.
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Category B project, incomplete.
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Interesting research paper, but the proposed software is a simple tally program that has no significant computing.
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Students learned how to use various computer systems. Good luck to them next year.
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It was a good choice to go to category B this year. I would consider extending the project to a supercomputing one next year...your suggestion to try and simulate a brain aneurysm would be very interesting.
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A good start for first time computer users.
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Again another ambitious project. The students have done quite a bit a research and learned a great deal about their subject. The concept of an interactive program outputting risk facts is a good one, but one wonders whether the causes of anuerysms (sic) are so readily condensed. Still the students should continue with this project.
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Did not ccomplish goal. The computing part would have been relatively simple.
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- Research? Did you identify the 20 "pointers" you alluded to? If so, what are they? How will you weight them? - Did you identify any algorithms to use? Generate any code? Did it run? - Good start. Level of research and getting running code will determine your success next year
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Your team is ready to begin applying the knowledge gained from this round in next years's contest. Meanwhile, you might visit with university or laboratory statisticians about creating a valid survey (they have ways of structuring such surveys so that the data is more relevant once collected). I do see one problem with relying on external people to complete your survey--this process will take too long and probably will not give you a big enough sample size (another stat question) You might be able to alter your program to have the computer generate your survey responses randomly for a given set of questions, or have these samples reflect some aspects of a society, tracking the growth in aneurysm's with the randomly generated increases in smokers or cocaine users, or some variation of this idea which will allow you to use your program on the supercomputer. The statisticians may have some ideas.
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It seems that national statistics would not be very good at predicting an individual's probability of the brain aneurysm. What would be interesting would be the flow of blood in the aneurysm especially with different sized aneurysm
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Continue to gather data
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Good start with research for continuation in next year's Challenge. Perhaps team members will be more comfortable with programming by then.
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Good start! You've done some nice background work here. I hope you continue.
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Project applicability questionable.
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Very interesting idea. What is the possibility? Keep working on the project.
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The topic is interesting and creative, so it's too bad more progress wasn't made. I'd start the report off by stating why the team thinks this is an interesting problem to solve.
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Category B report. The idea is interesting, and perhaps the students can continue with this after they learn some programming too!
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This project has potential - they could easily generalize the problem for any planet by making the planet conditions variables. Would make it more impressive. Promising candidate for next year.
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Students learned to simplify and narrow focus of the problem. Learned how to use internet documented.
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This sounds like a good project to continue next year.
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Have you calculated whether in the summer whether or not the comet will refreeze during the night?
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This is a somewhat ambitious project. The students should perhaps have focussed on a less difficult, but still related problem. For example, computing the amount of water necessary in the Martian ecosystem to make it similar to Earth's and then finding out whether there is enough water in a comet for this purpose.
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A comet landing on Mars would not just plunk down as a solid ice ball to sit and melt. The comet would impact with a LOT of kinetic energy -- perhaps enough to totally fragment and vaporize all of the ice in the comet. Consider this.
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- Need more research. Topic makes this hard, but interlibrary loan and usenet user groups may yield more info. If you can't find enough, however, recommend choosing another topic. - Is Martian surface temperature the sole factor affecting the melting of the comet? (How about impact associated events such as compression, friction, etc.?) - How will extra ice (i.e. in addition to polar caps) affect Martian environment? - Need to think about what yo really want to do. It appears you haven't really defined a specific answerable problem yet. Make sure you attack a solveable problem if you hope to be competitive next year!
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Inspire! Onward! The greatest value of this exercise is working as a team, developing your ideas, dealing with practical adjustments and implementations, and completing something which works to the capacity required in this contest. Step back from your challenge and look at its contest proacticality. If you find too many obstacles impeding progress, look at ways to modify your scale of program or change concepts completely. Keep up your enthusiasms and interest.
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A good start. Start off by just melting a small 1 meter ball. The surface area decreases as time goes on so does melting increase or decrease as the surface are decreases?
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Continue to work on project
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Editing would make reading this report a more enjoyable experience. Hope to see team members participate in next year's Challenge with more coding expertise.
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You have a neat, original idea here!! I like that you reduced the scope of your project to something reasonable. I hope you continue.
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Nice job of integrating suggestions you received at the interim review.
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Outstanding Very good research, the problem statement is excellent. Tfhe report is well written. Good interpretation of resutls.
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The problem here is really the subject of emerging areas of thought such as chaos and complexity theory, but for some reason, the team doesn't mention this or see the connection. While they obviously put a lot of effort into the programming, the more interesting questions of rules of life are not really discussed.
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This sounds like a pretty complete project. It isn't completely clear, but I think the students did get a program working for the 2D and 3D life game??? There are so many possibilities for showing the results of such a calculation, I was disappointed not to see more results. I hunted around until I found the web pages for this project, but my Netscape doesn't do VRML. It would be helpful in the reports to include a reference to accessible web pages, etc. Good project.
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I think this is a decent variation on the old Life problem. Some of what they did touches real computer science theory problems, although nothing really new. Using some CS theroy could have helped expand the project. All in all, pretty good for what they had to work with.
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Students see the applications to modeling various other real things. The project seemed to be more about looking for patterns, because students didn't actually compare their results to real things. Their project goals evolved and it was documented in their report. The report was well-written and visually pleasing.
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Nice Executive Summary. As suggested in the interim evaluation, you have come up with some possible applications for your code.
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Title misleading. Discussed different applications but didn't implement them. Nevertheless Team 049 took a hard look at the posssiblities.
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This is a "high-maybe" for me. They seem to have put a lot of work into their programming, and to have a good grasp of their projects significance, limitations, and possibilities.
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These students have chosen a very good supercomputing application. Their extension of Conway's algorithm to 3D is reasonable and makes sense. Exploring this aspect (3D Life structures) would have been very interesting. They however, have not included enough results with their report.
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Appears to have just made 2D and 3D Life simulations -- no attempt to apply them to any real world situation as indicated by title. Appears to have been a good learning experience in programming.
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This was a pretty simple but well done project. I needs more explana- tion of the applications and scientific basis of the work, though.
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Great program development. I look forward to seeing your presentation in Los Alamos next week. You have my vote to be there. Consult the book "Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of chaos." by M. Mitchell Waldrop (you can order it from www.amazon.com and they will ship it to you within a few days). The book talks about the work in artificial life being done at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe (similar and in some ways based on Conway's game of life.) Randy Burge randy.l.burge@lmco.com
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This is an interesting problem and can be expanded to have more variables. The report spends too much time on who the authors are and not on "point", the theme of the paper
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Very good report. Original computer code was developed. VRML was used in project.
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Nice report presentation. Team seems to understand subject well. Need to hear more.
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Good definitions and explanations of "Life" and the way you adapted it to your program. I like the way you are thinking about applications and extensions. Nice job.
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So, does this explain what happened to the dinosaurs? WOnderful approach to an interesting series.
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Excellent report. Problem -- well stated. Method -- explained good research. Outstanding visual materials. This is worthy of the top award.
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I'm not sure that vulcanologists classify NM as "highly" volcanic, but of course if the Valle Grande caldera ever goes up, it won;t matter much because we'll be too busy running. The research should have included the Web, because there are a number of very worthwhile sites to visit that talk about volcanic eruptions from which they could have gathered more information. The ERUP program is interest and I wish they had said more about it and the assumptions it makes in order to do its calculations.
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An interesting project with possibilities. I think the students enjoyed their project and learned a lot from it. I cannot tell exactly how much original programming was done, or how complicated it was, and wish there were a better way to display the results of their calculations.
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An interesting project for the team, but not enough computing involved to make it a final SCC project.
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Most of program was downloaded - not clear about their original contribution. No graphics.
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Nice report, but the project is not developed into a supercomputing project.
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Good change in focus to make the problem tractable.
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simple code used successfully to compute volume of cone and area of lava
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These students have done a good job in collecting information on their topic. They have written a simple code to compute the volume, I think, of El Capulin. It is not supercomputing. They should have included more about the ERUPT code they got from LA.
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I'm unclear as to the usefulness of what you did -- it looks like you just calculated the volume of your volcano. Were you then going to simulate what magnitude of eruption would endanger your school?
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This was a good try. The team made some good choices when they came up against a tough problem - namely, how to calculate the volume of a more or less conical shape.
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Your team accessed various resources and experienced life in the cyber fast lane. Education is about access. If you learn nothing more from this contest than this, you will have achieved a lifetime of imagination and inquiry. Competitively, your project could use more juice relative to the computer challenge, though, your effort is impressive. Keep up the spirit and each of you will do well in life.
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This is an interesting problem, but how would you expand on it? What are the effects of a volcano which erupts multiple times?
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Good use of the internet and maps. Continue to develop computer program.
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Good definition of your problem. In your program, I think you need a little more prompting for the user. Will the user know what "segments" are? You could add some of your explanation as text in your program to help this.
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Good report. Very good description of the problem and methods. Question, How will co2 effect the ocean? What do we gain? The results are not clearly stated.
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This project is obviously one in which the team members put a lot of work and in turn, learned quite a bit about science and programming. I think the research would have been stronger had they initially considered current alternative explanation for the Greenhouse effect. Nonetheless, the choice of CO2 is real, but the report doesn't mention why a 3-D model was necessary when the output is primarily a single percent.
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This appears to be a fairly complete project. I would have liked to see more discussion of the math (difference formula) used and to see more discussion of where the values of the parameters of the model came from. Overall, a very good job.
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Year after year, Espanola manages to turn out high quality projects like this one. Clearly belongs in finals.
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Interesting, innovative problem. Studentes understood need for supercomputer and achieved results and graphical output. Well documented code and good figures produced. Some questions: What effects will this have on Med. Sea life? How is CO2 collected to pump in the ocean. I would like to see the students present this at LosAlamos.
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At the interim evaluation, no code was written yet. I am impressed that some results have been obtained! This is an interesting idea.....I hope to see a final presentation of the results.
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Best project this year, but can't tell how much help mentors gave
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Makes a comment that after 59 weeks reaches steady state yet says later could only run the program out to 59 weeks. If first year with computers has made a lot of progress.
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fascinating idea -- ample graphical results -- nice professional job
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This looks to be a really good project. Their numerical method is simplistic and intuitive but bears a passing resemblance to a finite volume method. I think they have implemented it correctly. They also show results in the back and those are pretty neat. I like what they did. I wish their report have more information about the problem they were considering, for example, where exactly was the CO2 being injected into the Med. Results from a simple test case would also have made this judge feel more confident that their code was working correctly. All in all, however, excellent work.
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A very impressive calculation -- one worthy of using a supercomputer. Some preliminary calculations would be useful: Knowing the flow rate through Gibralter, and knowing how fast you are dumping CO2 into the sea -- what will be the final concentration of CO2 in the Mediterranean Sea water? Some reasonable value? Or an amount that will affect the marine biology?
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This was probably the most unique approach to the greenhouse effect I have seen. The scientific content and computational approach needs to be beefed up. Over all, this was a very good project.
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- Good research and coding. Nice report. - You did a good job with a pretty difficult project.
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Another environmental project from Espanola Valley High!
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Excellent and competitive submittal. Very well researched and crafted.
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Good project. The writeup could be more directed towards the problem solving instead of the background
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Excellent ouptut and excellent report. Used 3-D environmental model. Good use of internet and library resources.
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Interesting premise and good use of Super Computer Challenge. Nice documentation of process. Good presentation of results.
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Good idea, explanation and implementation! I had a little trouble following your report. I think it would help to differentiate the subsections, such as "Greenhouse Effect", "Carbon Dioxide" and so on with a bold heading.
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I have a lot of difficulty separating the concept from the project. The oceans are relatively unexplored frontiers; as such, there is no way to measure the impact of dumping our waste into them, regardless of the LIW. But, from the Supercomputing Challenge aspect, it's good work although I question how you would gather the emissions to begin with.
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Very interesting idea. The problem is clearly stated. The methods are not explained very well. Expected results not what was received.
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good project on the attempt to build a computational model of superconductivity. solid mathematics and iterative computer analysis.
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An interesting project, almost makes the finalist list for me, but not quite. I cannot tell how well the students understand the finite difference equation they used, or where the parameters of the model come from. Not very many results were shown -- were the students able to run their working program and really experiment with the parameters? The report could have been proofread more carefully.
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Possible, but the output graphs were not very well labelled, often a sign of not really understanding the problem. Report seems to support this a bit. Besides, the program itself was really too simple.
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Students achieved some results. Documented use of internet. Little code documentation.
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Would of been better if would of graphed results of runs, or varied one variable at a time to see relationships.
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succeeded in obtaining cooling of layered cable but no explanation of equations
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The students have made a pretty good stab at developing a heat transfer model for their superconducting design. However, I am having a little trouble understanding it. A few more diagrams would have been helpful. Good effort though.
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Good, simple calculation of a useful problem. Diagrams would have helped the explanation. Ten runs is not very many. Should you consider two-dimensional effects within your cable, such as warmer liquid nitrogen rising to the top of the pipe resulting in a warmer area?
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Your report was very good, as I have come to expect from your school. The content of the report was likewise good. Please note, however, that this is really a heat diffusion problem, rather than a model of superconductivity. Keep in mind that this is one engineering aspect of building a superconducting power line, not the basic science of the process of superconductivity itself. That's OK, though. Just emphasize the part you did and it'll stand by itself.
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- Good effort/coding. - Use of terminology indicates that you don't thoroughly understand superconductivity and/or are confused on aspects or your project. - You should have had an English teacher proof read yor report. Numerous grammatical errors.
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Good scientific approach to your problem. Carefully restrained scope to allow you to complete your program and run it. Many teams did not exercise this restraint and were unable to reach a conclusion. Great work.
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The project seems to have a lot of advisor help. The paper seems disjointed moving back and forth between the simulation and why superconducters are good things to model..
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Thanks for the joke about "little people". It was appreciated . Continue to refine program.
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I like your ideas here, especially the thoroughness of modeling the cable in two directions and the recommendation to add another. Your description of the algorithm could be a little more detailed, but it is clear. Nice job.
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Good work in a roundabout fashion. You incorporated the advice you received @ the interim report well; viability is still of huge concern.
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Problem statement -- good How will the co2 be controlled? used? setting? home use? How much is necessary? form -- liq. or gas?
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Interesting idea, category B, project incomplete. Hope students will continue with a similar project, and work to define how it is a computational project.
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Potentially an interesting and useful simulation. Has possibilities.
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Innovative idea. I hope to see it next year.
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Sounds like an interesting idea, but I am not sure how a computer code will be implemented.
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Keep going.
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This is an interesting idea in pest control. I like it. The students should have taken a little more time with their report, especially in presenting their results. I am not sure of a good application for computers in the project however.
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Not clear how the computer is going to be used in this project. Should you consider the safety aspects of this method? A person unexpectedly walking into such a greenhouse would quickly pass out and die -- what safety measures might be in order? Perhaps a small fraction of very smelly gas could be added to the CO2 which would instantly warn anyone away due to its odor?
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- Good potential topic. Make sure you do lots of research. Should be some out there! Usenet user groups (i.e. botany, agricultural, horticultural, etc.) should be of help also. - Excellent idea with lots of potential. Make sure you identify a specific problem to solve that requires a supercomputer to solve (i.e. integration of plant respiration sensors-- multiple types of sensors or numerous sensors that sense respiration for several different plant types-- into a control network that regulates percent of CO2 in greenhouse atomsphere in such a way to maximize plant growth for all plant types simultaneously). Once you have this, you have a direction to proceed in for coding.
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Challenge adequately stated. Step back from your work and look around the edges before proceeding with project next year. Understand clearly how the project will unfold and whether or not you can develop code for your application. If you can write code and you have meaningful data sets to begin followed by some logical progression, then continue. If you see other ways to address the challenge, then adapt and continue. Education is access. Use innovative resources and ways to reach those resources.
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This has great potential as a project. Try looking up gass diffusion in the literature as well as water flow problems
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Continue with project. Looks promising.
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Feasability of application is questionable as it would be hard to create a closed system in an agricultural environment. Like team's inventive attitude.
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Good idea. I hope you continue with your efforts.
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Don't people die of CO2 poisoning?
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Good introduction and statement of problem. I do not understand the model selected. You present two theories and as far as I can tell proceed with one of the theories. Which one? What does it prove.
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There are two main weaknesses with the research: 1. the report doe not specifically deal with the code the team wrote versus that which Dr. Allen wrote; and 2. there is no bibliography. The project's goal is fine, but the discussion of plate tectonics is too simple given the challenge of the project.
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Interesting idea here, but in the 40 pages of source code listed, I can't tell how much is original programming, and how much is David Allen's.
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I saw this team at interim judging. They have come a very long ways since then, and have produced a nice report, but... In spite of a visually good presentation, this team really didn't really understand much of the science at interim, as they point out in the report. It is not clear that they do now. They managed to find a free program that gives the results they want, but I can't see any indication they did anything other than compile and run the program. While it is OK to use existing code, they must add something or change something. Their report didn't make it clear just what, if anything, they actually did. While I don't think this is a finals level project, this team does seem to be a good candidate for the teamwork award. This was apparent at their interim presentation, as well as in the final written report.
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Interesting idea. Students borrowed code, but wrote I/O routines. What generated the pictures? Documented how well team worked together.
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Not sure what contribution the students made to this code, but it may be worth taking a closer look.
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You spent a lot of time debugging a 20-page code and I'm sure you learned a great deal about advanced programming than will serve you well.
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The team learned a lot by finding the program on the internet and then trying to implement it on their own machine.
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fascinating project, much clean code -- if they have done what they say it is great work for high school students
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This is certainly an original idea for a project. It is a little unclear how much programming the students did themselves and/or what changes they made to the code the obtained. Neat pictures though.
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I don't understand why you disparage other models of Pangea -- they are based on similar fossils and rocks found on different continents, geomagnetic records, current drift measurements, etc., and not on just imagination. Your model does not look substantially different.
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I liked this project. The only problem that I had was which parts were the team's and which were taken from the program which was obtained. Also, please use a spell checker. The algorithm used was essentially missing. How does this program work?
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- Good effort-- reserach, coding, etc.-- report lacking, however. - What machine used? Why only 4 views of Pangaea split/migration shown? Was a "movie" generated (e.g., @ 5 MY = 1 sec, "movie" would be ~50 Sec long)? - You mentioned differences betw your results & current theories. Waht are they? How did they arise? (Coding anomoly, etc?) - How much revision of another's code did you do?
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A completed project worthy of consideration by all of the judges.
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Excellent work. Your teamwork and thought processes are well-guided and thorough. Team dynamics can make or break a team; though, on a successful team you will find that each member has a chance to contribute, question, lead, and follow. Your team settled on a doable scale for your project early and it shows. Each of you will continue to reflect on this experience as a model for future teams with which you will participate. Be adaptive. Learn. Think. Learn.
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It is not clear what code was written by the team. An interesting extension would be to take the existing code and modify it or gleen from it the essential information and write a smaller techtonics model.
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Good use of internet. Good team work. Make program more complex.
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Need more original contribution for Super Computer Challenge.
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Nice background information. I thought your report at interim said you were going to apply the formulae and move forward in time. How could you apply your program to do that? Good job in finding your internet resource.
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Interesting, comparative; excellent use of resources. Wish we could see the math -- is it original?
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Outstanding! The problem was well defined. Excellent description of methods, formulas, etc. Good description of how the supercomputer is used. Worthy of an award
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I really liked this project from the supercomputing perspective, but the downfall of it is that there is virtually no science in the project. So, the output of the programming effort has no substantive validity check.
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The Challenge sees many projects on artificial life, and this one seems to be a very credible effort. The report does not show many results, so I cannot tell how much of this is work being planned, or work been done. Certainly, it would have been nice to have a much more detailed discussion and interpretation of results.
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Very nice report - well written, nicely formatted Very simplistice model with no connection, necessarily, to reality. Missing that extra level needed to be a finals team. They need to better understand what they are doing, and the limitations and simplifications of what they were doing.
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Good explanation of program components in report. Good teamwork documented. Nice writeup. Students adequately explained why supercomputer needed. I do not understand relevance to real world and not much analysis of results.
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Interesting format for the final report, but more details on the conclusion of the project are needed.
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Was background work done to determine best algorythm? Conclusions seem to be drawn on only one run of the program.
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interesting project -- some code -- no results
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These students have written reasonably involved code simulating the life processes of a bacteria colony. However, the need to explain the rules by which the colony lives more clearly in the report. They need to include more details about the how the various factors, food, toxins, temperature, change over time and how this affects the bacteria.
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Good work. Are your parameters such as food intake and toxin tolerance based on values for real bacteria, or did you choose them arbitratily? Does the fact that there are other bacteria nearby eating or dying affect the amount of food, toxins, and temperature for the other bacteria?
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Generally, this was good. However, I didn't see an algorithm or much discussion of the results. The report needed a lot more work, as I think this team did quite a bit of work and did it pretty well. It just wasn't reflected in the write up.
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- Good effort. Research lacking, however. - SC used? (which one?) - Results? Analysin fo facotr significance? Comparision to reality?
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Well defined challenge, narrowly focused early, produces interesting results. Great job. Your thought processes are clear, organized.
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It is not clear how the surrounding bacteria/environment affects the current cell. A lot of detailed explanation of the code is made, but a higher level description of the affects of the surrounding elements would be helpful
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Nice report. Need to develop program further.
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Team has defined programming tasks well and understands functionality of code. Expansion of application of program is desireable.
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Nice background and explanation of your problem. How do you represent your bacteria? I'd like to see more explanation of your data structures and algorithms.
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Well structured; believe that great progress was achieved from point of origin to present. I'm a little concerned about the code advisor's role; is he a student or teacher? Who is Dianna Mortrup?
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Excellent. Outstanding report. The report has a great explaination of methods, formulas, etc. Students demonstrate an understanding of the topic.
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There are several problems with the project that were not considered: the report seems to say that the probability equation treats each of the possible causes as independent events and we know this is not the case in real life; secondly, not all causes of birth defects are weighted equally, but this is what the research implies. After the preliminary data showed some dependence, the team chose to have two formulas rather than modifying the initial one.
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This seems to be a fairly complete project. The programming does not appear to be too complicated, but the students seem to have learned a lot about combining probabilities, ran enough sample problems so that could think about the meaning of the results they obtained. In all, a good job.
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This is a real world problem, and they did some interesting things, but I don't think spreadsheet data and simple Q&A data tally programs are supercomputer material.
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good summary, well organized paper, even included a bibiography. Students understood use of supercomputer and demonstrated knowledge of probability. Interesting project. Students should have put internal documentation in code and put probabilities in an array.
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Final report is well organized, but could use some more detailed explanations. May be worthwhile to see a presentation.
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Good backgroun information and conversion of the data. The effort to validate data was a good one.
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interesting project -- well completed -- report confusing in places not clearly a supercomputing type of project
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The students have done some really good research on the their topic and probably learned a great deal of relevant information. They have written a simple program to express their research in a more interactive form. A good job, but not really supercomputing.
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Important topic. But is a powerful computer really needed for the probablilty calculation you do?
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This team made good use of resources. However, the project was not very computationally intensive. Pretty good science fair project.
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- Good effort/research - What sc used? run time? compared to PC run time? - Results: Comparision to actual data for P(birth defects)?
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Great job. Well organized thoughts, nicely presented, on a subject with relevant applications in the real world. Perhaps members of the team will enter medicine, sociology, or related fields using software programming models to illustrate or test natural phenomenon.
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The writeup is nice. It is curious though how genetics or other factor will affect a person. Probabilities are good for a large population, but don't apply well to an individual. how would you use the large statitics to best predict a single person's probablity of having a birth defect.
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Excellent written report. Impressed with the work involved with this project. Project may be too broad and could be refined.
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Hope team will continue to pursue participation in the Challenge next year and expand on results reached with this project. Nice presentation of data.
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It is very common in the "real world" that models don't first match reality. I congratulate you for noting this, thinking through the problem and fixing it!!! That is a great experience.
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Structure of pursuit of problem is not logical; no representative hypotheses given or conclusions drawn.
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Better luck next year. Stay with the project. Do more library research to help you define the position and to develop the model for simulation.
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This is an interesting and potentially useful and practical research project. It is unfortunate that technical limitations prevented it from being completed.
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The project selected here is believable, and I think the students could have made something of it. Unfortunately, they chronicle a series of setbacks, which I hope were not too discouraging. Keep trying, maybe something more fortunate will hapen next time.
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While fun and interesting, drawing rooms using CAD software isn't particularly useful for the final result they want. The computation needed would not use AutoCAD or POV. A REALLY ambitious project might read AutoCAD DXF files, extract room window wall info and then produce the solar info they want, but that is far beyond the realm of a SCC project.
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Interesting topic, hope system problems will be resolved and students continue project.
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Interesting project. I hope to see some results next year!
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Maybe should step back and define a more tractable problem.
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This is a good project with much potential. The students should continue it in subsequent years.
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Are you taking into account the different angles of the Sun at different times of the year?
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- Excellent idea for topic - Good start. Work on this & you'll have a GOOD shot at being a finalist next year! - Tremendous potential! Original! A real potential winner! Your work will determine what happens, however!
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It is too bad the team had trouble with Linux.
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Keep working
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Nice use of commercially available software package. Hope to see expansion of this project next year with some original coding.
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Nice start. I hope you continue your efforts and interest!
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Good luck next year. Try contacting the AIA, Sandia National Labs (Ruth Duggan may be able to offer resources) and maybe FMSM or another architectural firm.
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Outstanding. Very good description of the project. Good definition of terms, methods, etc. I would like to see the final presentation. Does the result suggest that the wheel is stronger? Worthy of an award.
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excellent project in conception and implementation.
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These students have done an excellent job. They show a good understanding of the material they have worked on, and they have presented results of their work in a clear, understandable fashion.
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This is a different approach - using software to actually generate the meshes, rather than analyzing them. It would have been much better if they had worked on this part more, and generalized it to produce other meshes than the tire. Still better than most of the projects.
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Well organized paper, very clearly written. Good diagrams, achieved results. Good use of supercomputer. Students used CLASSES! I was very impressed.
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Interesting, would like to see a presentation on this.
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Very creative and developed useful programming skills.
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Could use more commenting in code.
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I ranked this project very highly. Mesh generation may seem mundane, but it is crucial in many modern simulations and won't make, but can easily break a model. They then applied their techniques to an interesting and reasonable problem.
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difficult engineering problem -- clearly successful results -- excellent graphics
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This is excellent work. I believe they have written most this code themselves and got it working. Their report is somewhat lacking in details, and I am curious about the Gaussian elimination algorithm the used to find the radius and center of the circles. Last time I checked, those were non-linear relations. All in all however, I am very impressed. The final mesh they showed is actually very good and they used it in a reasonable calculation. I would like to talk to them about how much they really understand about what their doing. Good job.
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Fantastic work! You did a lot of work since the evaluation review, evening finishing the stress calculation -- I'm very impressed. The problem you chose is an excellent one for this type of challenge, making good use of the powerful computer.
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Good project and the explanation of the mesh generation part was done well. However, the strain energy density part was neglected. Be sure to develop that part.
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- Excellent project. Very good work. Nice report. - Well scoped and executed. - What (additional) difficulties do you anticipate, should you try to go 3D with your work?
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nice report The team narrowed their project well and presented in a professional manner
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Explain more about application of wheel design. Generate different wheels and compare the advanatages of different designs.
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Terrific effort and team shows immense understanding of project thesis. Very good job.
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Great intro. I like your analysis in this project. Nice idea and good job!
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Well done; well written; pertinent and good use of supercomputational resources
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Very interesting. People have been trying to forcast the market since the beginning. Define all of the terms, "Fast Fourier Transform."
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The project has intuitive appeal and the mathematics are intriguing. The problem is that when the results are in, there is not an effort to interpret them in terms of the real world of the stock market.
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This project has an interesting and pertinent premise, that it should be possible to forecast the performance of the stock market using a time series analysis. It seems to me that so much more could have been done here. The program appears to have been written and debugged well enough that it was working, but there was very little data shown. Did the student run out of time?? How about taking a year or two of data of an actual stock's performance, and seeing how well you can forecast the second year performance after analyzing the first???
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This is an interesting project, but my main problem with it was the way he generated the test data in a way that really guaranteed that the program would work the way he thought ahead of time. This is bad science, and maybe should push this project into the NO range. Given the data, of course he got the results he expected.
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Interesting idea, but I don't think an FFT was taken of any stock market data.
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Even though project was lacking in stock market datathe problem was taken through the mathmatical underpinnings.
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successful use of fft -- not much output -- not clear what was accomplished
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The report needs much more details, also not very clearly written. The code itself seems OK, but it is basically just and application of an FFT algorithm already written. Also students need to explain "shape-analysis" more clearly. Good starting effort but needs more work.
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Stock market future performance depends on a multitude of external parameters and can't be predicted based on past market performance. You should have used real stock market data to test you hypothesis -- Just being able to pull the sine curve back out of the fake data you generated from a sine curve tells you nothing about the behavior of the real stock market. (It does show that the Fourier analysis will find the sine curve, yes.)
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The work was well done. I still don't know why a sine wave was chosen. FFT does not imply a sine wave function, just breaks up a function into many components with different frequencies. However, I still think it was a good job.
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- Good project but... - Is this your code or revision of another's code? - Which sc used? - Numerous grammatical errors in report detract from your work.
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Excellent job of structuring your project. You picked a challenge which could be translated nicely and completed it. Doing this is perhaps the biggest challenge for most entrants. By the way, you will probably enjoy reading the book "Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of chaos," by M. M. Waldrop--it chronicles the emerging story of the Santa Fe Institute here in Santa Fe. SFI is working in the areas of economies and chaos with a view of the stock market activity.
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Intereting use of FFT. It would be nice to see if FFT are real predictors of the stock market. Can FFT be used on a single stock? What other factors are needed to do goo dprediction
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Add realistic stock data. Information should be available at UNM's Parish Library.
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Interesting premise and application of Fast Fourier Transform. Need to hear more about it.
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Good idea and I like your clear summary of your goal. You mention several times that your output verified that your fft was "working." I'd like to see more explanation of the fft and what the output of that transform really mean. What does an fft do? Nice write up.
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Though I wouldn't put my money down, this is an interesting, contemporary, and well-executed project. I could lean toward yes.
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Very hard to accept this report as product of high school students. Exceptional work
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excellent project; well designed and implemented. The report is unusually well written
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This is an interesting project. In parts, it is hard for me to follow exactly what was done and why. It seems they have completed a reasonable fraction of the work they set out to do. I did not understand exactly what was being shown in the figures. Why are the balls arranged in (mostly) a rectangular lattice? Overall, an impressive project. Good job!
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On the high end of my NOs - almost a maybe... No final results apparent. I couldn't really tell from the report if they actually had real results or not. I don't think so.
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Well organized and well written. Students understood need to narrow focus of the problem and gave indication of future areas of research. Good teamwork, students obviously put in a lot of time for a complex problem.
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Final report is well written....a presentation of this project would be interesting.
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The students who did this project seem to have a good understanding of the problem they are working on, and to have addressed it in some depth.
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impressive completion of very challenging hydrodynamics problem, whether you call it molecular dynamics, ParticleInCell, or free lagrange -- useful graphics
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Nice looking report. This is, of course, not the way to design aircraft wings. It is essentially a molecular dynamics simulation, but it seems to lack the all-important interaction effects between molecules. Also they don't discuss how the impact of the molecules on the shape affects things like drag etc. The code is well-commented however and they have clearly done a lot of work.
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Nice project -- good use of high power computer. I could not find how many particles you were using in a typical run. Also, did you use the collision results to calculate the forces on the surfaces of the airfoil? That would be very important, but I didn't see it discussed.
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This team did a good job in narrowing their project down to a reasonable level. They also got some results, which weren't presented very well, but it was impressive to come so far nevertheless. I think this is a good example of a research project. Start off solving the world's problems and end up with a two dimensional model of a subset of the original problem. I liked it.
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- Good project. Well scoped! - Why NMSU SP2? why not a faster, more available machine? - good results. Was a "movie" of data output done? - good report
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Great job!
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The project has many components, althought the write-up was at times off point. A better approach to the write-up is to state your problem and avoid talking about what you didn't do. Many researchers want to do a lot, but when they present, they only talk about what was relevant to the process.
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Excellent report.
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Concepts of velocity and vector analysis are not well documented in this report. Results are documented but they are not significant.
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Good clear definition of your task. I like that you considered trade- offs for your project and made the decisions accordingly. That shows good engineering! I also really like your flowchart for your code. Nice thought and good job. I liked the clarity and explanations in your report.
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Incorporated interim guidance to achieve positive results and success. Good job. What's the subliminal deal with the constant reference to "Team 067"?
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Use of the supercomputer? Very interesting study. More attention to defining the variables and inputting the data for the simulation necessary. Conclusion not justified or explained.
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interesting project, but the discussion is not really reflected in the model. The discussion leads one to believe that the eventual model will explicitly include variables representing the human intrusion into wolf habitat and immediate factors affecting wolf survival such as food. But, these are not part of the final mathematical model.
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This project has some potential, but very little was shown as results. The programming amounts to little more than coding up a formula and evaluating it -- not necessarily bad in itself, but a lot of playing with the behavior of the predator/prey relationship as a function of the input parameters could have been interesting.
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Code too simple to really put project in finals. no graphics or other results included in the report.
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Practical, immediate problems. A simple problem with a narrow enough focus. I like its simplicity. Did not indicate any math sources in bibligraphy?
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The supercomputing aspect of this project is not clear.
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Use of graphics could help here in showing wolf/prey relation ships.
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interesting project -- some code -- limited results
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An interesting, topical effort. Too much space however was given to the habits and behavior of wolves and not enough to the model. There were not nearly enough results included. There was not experimentation with the model to see how different parameters would affect the wolf population. It is relatively easy to add other factors to the model, such as disease and climatic effects, but this was not down.
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What have you done to make the predator/prey model specific to the White Sands Missile Range wolves that allows you to make the conclusion that the wolves can be successfully reintroduced there? Did you chose constants that matched the conditions there? Did you consider boundary effects where wolves meet ranchers?
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The equations were there, but I didn't see much explanation of how they were implemented. Nor did I see much in the way of results.
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- Nice project. Well scoped, etc. - Why only 3 yrs of analysis? Why only 1 prey? why only 1 predator if you had remaining time? Appears little work was done since Interim Judging. Extra effort could have guaranteed a top performer. Good strong effort, though.
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The presentation is very nice. The background information and the mathematical model are presented well together. The preditor/prey process is a great method for demonstrating a computer model.
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Develop outputs.
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Team has a good understanding of the predetor/prey interaction but graphical results referred to in the report documentation were not included.
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You have a good start here and are going in the right direction. I am a bit confused by your goal, to determine the conditions of growth, and the work here. I see a nice model that incorporates some chosen conditions of growth. Does your model incorporate weather, total food supply, or man as predator?
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Rather elegant. Am I being duped by its simplicity? Try using footnotes for a less distracting read.
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Keep after it. better luck on the project next year
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Category B project here is basically incomplete. The project idea is interesting but still needs some refinement. That will come naturally as more work is done. Perhaps the students can do more next year. Good luck.
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This sort of simulation is a bit tired. It is not original or unusual enough to be a really good SCC project.
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Students understand need to limit variables. Make sure to include in report next year, what you learned about computers, programming, etc.
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It looks like this project still needs to become more focused, although it is moving in the right direction.
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Background info coming along.
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The students have done plenty of research on their topic. They have even proposed a simple model of tiger populations which would require a computer for solution. It is a shame they could not get it working in time. They seem to have a grasp of their topic. Hopefully, we will see them next year.
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Will your model incude the effect that Man has on the tiger, due to hunting and loss of habitat? It's more than just a predator/prey situation: it's prey/predator/nastier-predator
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- Good start. Interim presentation was great! What happened? - Determination and elbow grease can result in this being a finalist next year. You have a great topic, which is really important. Ideas and enthusiasm expressed at interim judging was great, too! Don't miss this chance to excel! You CAN do it!
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For non-competetive, this report seems to be well thought out. It looks like you have a good model for next year.
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Continue to work on program
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I think your project definition could be a little clearer here. That would also give you focus as to your next step. Be sure to define all variables used in your equation in your report.
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Use resources such as spell check, current sources, footnotes. Are captive tiger stats applicable to wild populations?
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More emphasis on the definition of terms. List and describe in detail the variables. The project is very interesting. Do not assume that the reader knows about Einstein's planet.
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It appears the students have learned a lot from their project on "theoretical planets." There was a considerable amount of programming shown, but I was not able to tell if much more was done than to code up a formula relating mass, density, and radius. It would have helped me considerably if more time had been put into writing the report very clearly, and if the students would have used a spell- checker.
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Kind of interesting idea, but not a very good presentation of results. Also, very bad English spelling and grammar. Needed serious proofreading.
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Students did not compare their results to actual known values. Did not explain use of supercomputer.
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limited project, but considerable code and some results probably not super computing
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A problem for basic calculus and provide for some introductory programming, but it is not supercomputing.
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An interesting, if somewhat strange, problem to choose. It would have been helpful if you showed a graph of the result you got for density vs. radius for one of your "planets". A simple analytical argument leads me to think the density should simply vary as 1/r...
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The work done was pretty good, but I didn't follow the report that well. The team did learn some fundamental physics relations, but the computational aspects were a little unclear to me.
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- Nice project. Scoped well - What was output? Is this realistic? (i.e. no inc in density w/ layers above a given layer?) Idea behind this NOT well explained. - Grammatical errors in repot detract from your work.
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Good progression from the interim report. Needs spell check.
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The program seems to be a lot of graphics and little on computation. A working program is great, but there doesn't seem to be any "for" loops or grids... the stuff that usually makes a supercomputing project. The report is nicely layed out./..
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Better explanation of output? Not sure of project's results.
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A clear goal was not stated in the documentation for this project. Calculations documented will not support any real phenomena.
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Nice idea. Could you discuss the uniqueness of your idea here? I like your explantion of your equations.
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Incongruous. Math -- doing great; writing -- needs big attention: Since, not sense. Created by Ken Fischer means ??? Appendices B&C seem superfluous.
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Not a good final report, 2 pages! No attempt to define and describe the project, process, and findings.
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Was this an interim report???? The project could have been interesting.
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A one page report is not acceptable. There is no indication they did anything, yet the last sentence of the report seems to indicated they thought they did something. Comments like that are totally inappropriate in papers like this.
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Report too brief, did not include code.
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For all I know this could be a great project, but the team doesn't give itself a chance from its write up.
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no results
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An interesting project, but more details should be provided in the report.
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Are blood vessels really the same size in people with different sized bodies?? What happens when blood vessels branch into smaller vessels?
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This could be a very good project. Perhaps this team could start over next year.
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- Where's your program/results? Did program run/work? Why/why not? - Good idea and start.
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You had very good competition. Good subject idea, but to win the challenge your project needed much more work at this point. I encourage your team to continue developing your project. Use resources at NMSU and at UNM Medical School. Also, and through UTEP the UT Medical School.
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Where is the program? A more detailed explanation of how your program worked would be helpful.
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Complete program
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Some bad assumptions have been made in this thesis. Team needs to rethink these assumptions and expand on what they are examining.
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What exactly will your project do? What are your goals? I'd like to see more clarity here. It will help with deciding your next step.
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This bears no resemblance whatsoever to a Final Report.
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Good report. More emphasis placed on building the model than on the computer simulation.
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This wind tunnel project was clearly more of a science fair effort than a computing challenge effort. It sounds like the students enjoyed their project, and learned a lot from the experimental part of the work. I wish they would have had more time to spend on the numerical modeling!
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SCIENCE FAIR! Nice science fair project, but it doesn't look like the computing part of the project ever worked or was a major part of the project.
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Students performed actual experiments on wind. Program very well documented. Good diagrams. Not well written, didn't write much about computer or program. No actual results documented.
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Not sure what the results of the computer calculations were, but the wind tunnel sounds interesting
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Team really did the experiments. Simple code to calculate the aerodynamic values of measured sate was tractable. Tables were good as well as the comparison of the results using graphics.
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This project shows good understanding of the scientific method and how it is used in practise. Working both the experimental and calculational ends of science and trying to make them meet in the middle is very impressive.
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nice aero project probably a lot of learning limited code/results probably not supercomputing
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I liked this project. Not much supercomputing but a lot of thoughtful, creative construction of the test apparatus. Good basic understanding of wing design factors. I was unclear on what data they were hoping to obtain from the wind tunnel. Usually, lift and drag are measured; how would those be found here? A picture of the final apparatus would also help out. They should definitely continue this project in subsequent years.
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The amount of work you put into building the models and measuring wind tunnel data is impressive -- but the main point should be the attempt to model the aerodynamic phenomena on the computer.
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Very little discussion of computing, scientific basis or results.
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- Great idea and effort, but w/o coding, running on a sc, only a very nice sci fair project. - You should have gone noncompetitive w/ this and got help to do a 1st class coding job... could have doubled as a modified sci fair project next year and might have made the NM SCC Finals. - Good effort though.
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Good work. Consider using NASA resources at the White Sands facility near Las Cruces if your project continues developing. Education is access. Learning how to access resources is a key lesson. Great teamwork!
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It seems the project was too big at the beginning. A better approach would to "model" a wing with lift using a 2-d grid and different angles. Thus, the need to have a wind tunnel and other materials would not have slowed you down on the computer programming aspects.
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Impressed with the wind tunnel! Still need to debug program. Good progress so far.
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Editing would make this report more readable. Bernoulli theory has been proven and it is a principle that is used for airplane flight. Good research has been done in this project into the engineering of aerodynamics and a good strategy has been formulated to compare calculations with experimental results.
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I like the description of your terms. You show a good grasp of the wind tunnel in your explanation. How does your program model the wind tunnel? How is your structure represented? I'd like to see more info on your data structure and algorithms.
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What direction was this team given at the interims & Was it followed? Lots of research, data, and pages here, but am not certain of the content, particularly given the conclusions.
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Better luck next year
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Category B project is incomplete at present. Good luck in your second year. The project could be very interesting.
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This is a good start to a potentially good SCC project.
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Interesting topic, I prefer this to the "collision" problem everyone always does. Students did a lot of research on mathematics and comets, obviously. What did you learn about computers though? Hope to see this project next year.
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Looks like a good start on a project for next year.
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Background info seems well in hand. May need to focus scope of project so more tractable.
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Excellent project. These students really seem to have a grasp at what is required to do this problem. It seems they ran out of time however. They should be encouraged to submit in Cat A next year.
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The problem with tracing a comet back to its origin is that there are non-gravitational effects at work on the comet: outgassing jets from the comet affect the orbital path in a very unpredictable manner. If the jets have even a small effect on the path of a comet making a close encounter with a planet, the resulting orbit after passing the planet can be VERY different than if the jets had not made the approach different.
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- Excellent idea for topic and start! - Make sure you don'r underestimate coding task ahead of you. Work hard, however, and this has potential of being a finalist project. - If coding work is easier than you project (i.e. you find code that you can modify/revise for use, include other complicating factors (other planets, asteroid belt, etc.). - Real potential winner here! Your effort determines the outcome!
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Best category B project I have reviewed. Keep up your work. Your team is on to something good. Go for it!
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No executive summary The project needs to be narrowed to 2 or 3 bodies and changing their varies sizes (mass) to see what happens to the bodies.
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Report has been nicely put together. However, there is missing data that has been referred to in the report. Hope this team will expand on their project for next year's Challenge.
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Nice start. Keep up the good work.
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Where's the exec summary? Where's the code? Nice starat for next year, but not sure you've grasped the concepts.
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Better luck next year.
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Category B project is incomplete at present. I would get stressed out if I had to answer a 150-question questionnaire! Good projects for the challenge need to be a bit more computational in flavor, though. Perhaps something of this can evolve into a project for next year.
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This is not a very good computer project - it is more of a social behavior study, and the computing is just an incidental tool.
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Interesting topic, hope to see it next year.
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Maybe add graphics to more easily see trends in the data. Write-up needs work.
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This is an amibitious project. Perhaps the students should have tried something of more limited scope.
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- Make sure your program idea is sc worthy-- not just a calculator problem done on a sc. - Ideas to insure above DOESN'T happen... -- Determine (through research) and assign probability weighting factors for a set of observed (research again!) personality types-- i.e. what is the probability that personality type x might be stressed by situation "n"? -- Construct multi-stress situations to subject these personality types to -- Perform SC runs to determine probability of elicited stress in these personality types in response to the constructed situations -- Compare hypothetical personality types' responses to the responses of real individuals having the personalities (research again!)
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How will you model the stress parts? Will the various episodes a person experiences over time cause a higher rate of death?
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Continue to work on project.
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A very subjective topic for a very objective Challenge. Team members seem to be extremely inventive and I hope to see them in next year's Challenge.
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As at midterm, I like the overall idea of examining stress. Our society battles it constantly. Where will you get your life expect- ancy data? How will you correlate that data with the perceived stress of others?
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The way this is written distracts from its content. Get help with writing, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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