Viva Las Vegas! After a three day drive that included quick visits to friends and family along the way in Texas and Arizona as well as brief visits to the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam at night (very cool!), and finally to Las Vegas, I arrived just in time to showcase my Ajax Performance Monitor Toolkit.… Continue reading ICOMP 09
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Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
The Samford Unviersity Virtual Supercomputer is coming soon! Today I gave a demonstration/presentation about the non-dedicated cluster I am building on campus. Eventually, it may grow into a supercomputer, but for now I am quite happy with the direction it is taking as a computational resource for campus. The Powerpoint Slides from my presentation are… Continue reading Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
Alabama Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Tonight I am attending the executive committee meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, where I am the editor for electronic media (i.e., I am in charge of the organization website). Tomorrow I will be chairing the Engineering and Computer Science presentations at the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama. I did not submit… Continue reading Alabama Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Sun Microsystems VirtualBox
Wow – Sun microsystems has been busy – discreetly releasing and/or acquiring all kinds of important open source software projects. The banner of logos shown above just about summarizes it. Today I discovered VirtualBox while working on a cluster computing project. VirtualBox isn’t directly related to cluster computing, but it can be used to run… Continue reading Sun Microsystems VirtualBox
Going live with Mesa Online
This morning we went live with Mesa Online, a website for students taking Spanish courses in the World Languages department. The idea behind the Mesa program is that students sign-up for a time to have lunch or dinner with a small group of students and one faculty member. During the lunch or dinner, all conversation… Continue reading Going live with Mesa Online
Welcome to Spring 2009
ul{margin-left:25px} Welcome to another exciting semester at Samford University! Here is a quick summary list of the exciting classes and work just around the corner! COSC325 – emphasizing web languages to demonstrate concepts of programming languages COSC495 – senior seminar – details of student projects to be posted soon! SUVS – Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
Under hacker attack!
Update – Apparently it was about May of this year when there was a large surge in ssh password attacks. I believe that my computer became a target sometime after that. Here are some good articles reporting on the situation: “Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge” by InformationWeek “Brute-force SSH attacks surge by SC Magazine This… Continue reading Under hacker attack!
Final exams
I am in the process of giving my Intro to Computer Science exam right now with two more exams to go after this one. I thought I would take a minute to update on a number of projects in the works: Ajax Performance Toolkit – I am in the final stages of getting ready to… Continue reading Final exams
Overclocking update
One thing I have learned over the last week is that overclocking is challenging and somewhat addictive. I thought it was a simple tweak of the BIOS settings, but soon you find yourself tweaking the settings to try to get every last MHz out of your processor at the lowest possible voltage settings to avoid… Continue reading Overclocking update
ACM Mid-Southeast Conference Today!
After a late start, we made it into Gatlinburg, TN just after 1AM. We got to drive through light snow falling, and see all the beautiful Christmas lights with hardly any traffic on the roads at all. Now it is on to the very serious business of wrapping up my presentation that I am due… Continue reading ACM Mid-Southeast Conference Today!