NCSSM Grid Computing

So Miniterm is almost over and the first stage of the grid computer is near completion. This time was very productive and I hope much more progress will be made in the coming weeks/months. Much works still must be done, but afterwards the grid will be churning like never before and the projects that we get out of it will be good. Great Job Miniterm 2007 Grid Computing Team!!!

The BOINC server is up! Projects are being pushed onto the server as we speak, and there is much rejoicing. We hope to have our first workunits transferred over the network by this afternoon. (Aww, our cute little baby, he’s processing!)

The ISO images for dedicated client operating systems are almost there; they work (at least in qemu) but could still use a fair bit of optimization. More specifically, the method being used to install the BOINC client is a bit of a hack job, as it’s being done through downloads with a kickstart script.

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The server is now fully functional, the test project ran fine – there were some security problems getting the website to display it but he thinks they’ve gotten that worked out – now we need to put that on our website. The bug preventing things from happening was subtle. Austin got the client to talk to the World Grid. We have a day and a half left, and Menchini thinks we can pull this off.

I just Boinc-ified the RSA project with the help of Mario, Kurt, and Ankit. I just need to de-bug and have Morrison look over my C++ grammar and it should work.

Peace to all and God bless,
Austin Ellis

BOINC!

we’re trying to boincify the code project; we’re trying to finish fixing the server, and Austin has hit some sort of brick wall. There’s a script you can run that tells you if everything’s installed correctly, and it’s giving us error messages. Mr. Menchini thinks it’s a firewall problem and is trying to balance between fixing it and keeping everything protected. Hopefully, today we will fix the problems that seem to have cropped up like rabbits that had way too good a time this weekend.
Austin wants to get the client talking to our server.

Before our weekend break, we have achieved a good amount on the RSA bruteforcing. Jake and I now have a python script that can find the 2 primes that go into the n value of the public key.

Jake notes that we pwn. Victory is ours.

Roger is trying to compile software for the boinc server.
I learned some Java, we played with and learned about some HTML, and unix commands.

We need Mechini back.

read the other posts for more information! the website looks great, doesn’t it?

The Web Site is near completion. The basic thing we need to do now is wait until we have a fully functional server that we can do statistics on. It’s almost lunch time, and I am feeling good about this project so far.

As a second project to run on the soon to be initiated grid, Brian, Kurt, and I are working on a genetic algorithm in Java that has an input of student requests for classes and an input for classes offered, which will place students in classes until (hopefully) everyone is happy. We are about 2/3 of the way done with this, which is good because I’ll probably have to start writing dedicated client control code for the server pretty soon (since we will actually have clients in little to no time).