Spring 2007 Projects
Important Note
This semester has been unlike any other in COSI’s history. This is largely due to the facts that out laboratory has been renovated, we got our BladeCenter assembled, and the network is being overhauled. All of these issues combined have made for a semester that doesn’t have many group projects, but rather one giant project that everyone is participating in; the COSI restoration project.
Infrastructure
- Everyone
Several parts of the restoration of COSI fall under this category. The first would be the BladeCenter. Currently we have it completely assembled and are currently using it to host graduate student research.
Secondly, we are in the process of getting our EXP400 storage expansion units to work properly with our BladeCenter. We have ran into several road blocks with this so far.
We also have been working on getting our ES7000 over from OIT and into COSI so we can actually start using it.
Cluster
- Cyrus Katrak
- Keegan Lowenstein
- Jacob Torrey
The Clarkson Open Source Institute and the Internet Teaching Lab are working on making a LAM/MPI cluster out of the lab computers as well as a web interface for submitting jobs. When this is complete, we will have around 40 3ghz nodes, and the Department of Mathematics (and any other who needs it) will be able to use this to compute some of their work.
Linux Basics Workshops
- Todd Deshane
- Ryan Kornheisl
- Keegan Lowenstein
- Zack Shepard
Some new members of COSI have joined with a lower amount of basic Linux knowledge than they would like. To solve this problem, people decided that doing some tutorials on this subject would be beneficial to those people to help them become more fluent in areas such as the command line and command line programs.
Temperature Monitoring
- Jim Owens
With our brand new server room, Jim felt that it was important to start monitoring the temperature in there as well as the labs in general. Once installed, we were surprised by how inconsistent the temperatures were and are now in the process of getting this settled so that our hardware lasts longer.