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!!!
Grid Blog: projects
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!
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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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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.
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).
…it has been good. Much progress from the various sectors of the project. The website is nearly complete, mainly due to my efforts and Roger’s attempts to fix what I’ve done. The RSA people seem to have something working, and with the first zombiebot up we should have something working a week from now. I have learned a lot about website programming, but need to learn a lot more. This is coming together very fast and it is all good. Peace out….
Ben
How’s it coming? Well…it’s coming. The basic software is written, debugged, and successfully compiled, but I’ve been sitting here watching it cycling through thousands of random numbers for about an hour now. And that’s not even the actual brute force attack - I’m just trying to generate a freaking private key! Other than that, there have been chair races and music trades and wikisurfing. And yay! the computational catamite has come out of its catalepsy. 
Say thanks to Tyler, Roger, and Austin (Page) for that one. Well, until tomorrow, my public. 
- The Jakester
Ship’s log, stardate [-29]7357.96. Web site is going well. Once pictures and biographies go up on the people page everything will be done for now. (Morrison looks scary even in JPEG.) Still waiting for the server crew to start the grid server. Fedora Core 6 is taking hours to install on dedicated client; net install from inside the intermittent school network was probably a mistake.
Will update as needed.