Assume you are in an R&D organisation. You have a project on detecting certain animals, e.g., sharks and sea turtles in the ocean or cows on a farm from imagery. Your organisation has decided to use Artificial Intelligence techniques for analysing images to perform the task. There are a few possible requirements in terms of computing needs, e.g.,

 Sophisticated high performance computing system.
 Low power carry devices for a portable system.
 Data analytics and visualisation facilities.
 Data server and repository.

Deliver on one or more of the requirements. For that, you need to purchase appropriate computing resources. Please note, you need to focus on the computing needs not on the imaging.
Write technical report to your manager about the computing resources and their specifications. As such, you need to prepare report covering several items as outline below.

 

 Give basic information about your chosen device and justify your selection. Describe the device's main functions. Provide some detail as to the range of activities possible with the device. E.g.,

Make of device

Model of device

Selection justification

Technically, what the device does

What this means the device can achieve

 2. Describe the physical footprint of the device. Talk about how the physical footprint/ergonomics of the device supports the main functional aims of the device.

 The physical design of the device (size, shape, material)

How does the physical device relate to the user (how it interacts)

Main aspect/functional aim of the device's physical design

3. Describe the main components on its main system board.

A good overview of the components

More detailed discussion of the components and how they support the devices
functionality

Description of how the components are connected using interconnects
 

4. Describe the type(s) of primary memory in the device.

Overview of the primary memory

Technical specifications of the primary memory on the device

Discussion of why this memory was chosen

How is primary memory used to support the devices functionality
 

• 5. Describe the storage requirements of the project and main method of storage in the device.

Storage requirements

Overview of the storage in the device

More detail of the storage used

Provision of expansion

How is the storage used to support the devices functionality
 

6. Describe the main technical characteristics of the CPU used in the device.

Identifying the CPU correctly

The main features of the CPU and how they interact

Cache

A discussion of the parallelism features of the CPU

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  7.  Describe and justify any special hardware requirements e.g., Graphical Processing Units.

Identifying the hardware and justification correctly 

 The main specs of the hardware and how they contribute to the overall task

8. Describe the main groups of instructions in the CPU instruction set (if there are multiple, choose one).
 Boolean logic support
 Maths (add, multiple,)
 Floating point
 Control flow(loops, goto.)
 I/O support  

Anything else - multimedia

9. Describe how the main instruction set of the CPU has evolved over time.

 Technically, how it's changed over time (e.g. which sets of instructions added)

• Discussion on how the instruction set has adapted, or goals changed (e.g. the addition of
  multimedia instructions or power management)

10. Describe the main programming languages or platforms needed for the project. Give a brief history of them.

 List and briefly discuss the main programming languages and platforms that could be used.

• An overview of the history of the languages and platforms.