TODO

[jvanstraten]

List of things to do (also includes nice-to-haves)

Web interface

• add links to wikipedia articles
• cache images retrieved from wikipedia's API locally for increased speed
• allow running both software and hardware implementations automatically
• bar plot for hardware vs software
  • rudimentary implementation
  • tick marks (probably requires some kind of plotting device)
  • don't rely on javascript setInterval() accuracy for animation (chromium seems to be accurate, waterfox is not)
  • implement websocket-based push notifications to allow the web app to delay starting the bar graph timer until the run actually starts
• locking the server to allow multiple client connections
  • a proper queue?
• language switching
• status display
  • rudimentary server status display using polling
  • handle and indicate errors when the server goes offline, and automatically restart polling or show a button to do so
  • use websocket-based push notifications for the status display
  • add CPU utilization meter (this is easier if there is just some thread running that generates the push notifications, because of the required averaging window)
  • make a nice plot instead of just having bars
• proper error handling (right now, the client tries to interpret a failure message as JSON, so the script crashes)
• demo-mode that automatically requests things every so often
• architecture/information page(s)

FPGA implementation

• allow pattern matching (wildcards etc)
• actually fill up the FPGA to get more performance
  • figure out why memory is bottlenecking at around 50% theoretical (burst size, probably)
  • four instead of three subkernels, or do a simpler kind of duplication

Clean up

• make sure readme is up-to-date
• move to abs-tudelft, open repository