Lab Build

I have created a blog to track my work on the lab build. The reason that it isn't hosted locally is because I can not use SQL databases here.

Here are the scripts that mike mccabe and i have written:

And the bugs that i have closed:

  • Due to server complications, I can not list my closed bugs. But you can filter through all of the bugs to get mine.

Semester Goals

This semester I participated in the creation of the new lab build, so my first goal would have to be maintaining it.

    UPDATE
After Fedora Core 5 had been release, I got working on setting it up on a single computer that would eventually be ghosted lab-wide. The first wall that I had run into in the creation of this ghost image was the re-compiling of OpenAFS. Back when this process began, OpenAFS 1.4.0 which didn't have any FC5 rpms and the source threw out some nasty errors.

Next, since Mike McCabe is leaving this year, I decided that it would probably be a good idea to learn as much about the lab's servers as possible so if something goes wrong, I will be able to do something about it.

    UPDATE
Since the beginning of the semester, I would have to say I have leared a significant amount more about the servers of COSI. Appraently, it has been enough to restore nice-thing from "catastrophic hard disk failure".

A new goal for myself (and others) was to get COSI and the ITL set up as a cluster so people can use them to do some parallel computing. Well, they are functional, now we need to write a job submission agent to allow people to actually use it.

Brief Information About Myself

Ryan Lewis
Computer Science
2009
COSI Hours: nine to noon on Fridays

Extended information.