Speech:Summer 2017 Zachary Dudek


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Week Ending June 14th, 2017
Evaluating the overall state of the Spring 2017 project up to this point. I am reading through all of the logs of each individual person, group logs if those apply more understanding to the concepts discussed in the personal logs, Final report to see what the final results are and what was actually completed over the course of the semester. Evaluating the state of each machine. For example if the Redhat installations were all successfully register on the drone machines. Clean up the experiments by making sure that all the experiments that were done this semester are visible on the wiki under experiments page. Create an email or message stream of the groups competition conversations on the wiki under each groups page. Making sure that the installations are uniform on all of the machines. Experimentation with torque to see if it shows any improvements.

Week Ending June 21th, 2017
Gathered conversation information from slack.com channels Rebels. I was able to get the email/message stream up on the rebels page for Spring of 2017. This details the messages that were exchanged while the competition was underway on our own private slack channel. Due to the private channeling between the groups on the slack channel I was not able to gather the chain of messages that the Empire team had over the course of the competition. I will have to see if I can contact the creator of the Empire teams channel to have them add me in to the channel so I can then hopefully see a populated chain of messages.

Week Ending June 28th, 2017
This week I was in the process of hunting down the person that created the slack channel. Locating this person will allow me access to the slack conversation of the Empire team for Spring 2017 for the competition. One of the next steps is to check if all of the experiments on Caesar and the drones have been recorded to the wiki page for experimentations. I need to have access to the server room to reboot the servers so I can gain access to the them to check if the servers experiments folder on mount/main matches that of the wiki pages. I will talk to Prof. Jonas about getting a key fob made so I can have access to the server room to restart the Caesar and the drones if the need be.

Week Ending July 6th, 2017
This week we were talking about the servers that we received from Bonnie. The servers consist of two dell r610's and one more dell 1950 so three new servers in total. These servers will most likely act as drones for 9 servers that reside on the networked switch now. I have began doing research on how to connect the servers to the existing network as for this is my first time installing servers on a network. I found that watching youtube videos was helpful along with boning up on previous networking classes knowledge that I have acquired. I also found that the Systems group from Spring 2017 has left a helpful guide in setting up a server on the network with a clean operating install. In the case of these servers they are running the latest version of Linux RedHat.

Week Ending June 13th, 2017
The project tasks have changed some from the last entry. I am no longer worrying about the installation of the drones because Jonas doesn't see it as being feasible for us to install all of the servers and update all of the software within the allotted time. We are moving on to updating a table that can be used to see what software is installed on specific machines. This table will be added to the system software setup page.

Week Ending June 20th, 2017
At this point I am updating the chart. I am checking to see what software is on each of the drone machines. I first start with what operating system is on each of the drone machines and what version it is currently running. All of them are running some version of RedHat Linux. I am then looking into the additional software that each machine has such as torque, emacs, etc.

Week Ending June 27th, 2017
Finalizing the chart this week is what my task was. I finished updating all the machines that I could because some were not up and running for various reasons. Obelix needs to be restarted and Asterix seems to need the same thing. Those are the two machines that I still don't have information for because I have yet to get access to the server room.

Week Ending August 3rd, 2017
In the process of finalizing the chart and adding all of the final details from all of the drone machines. I am still have troubles with Obelix and Asterix. I need to head over to the server room and see if I can restart both of them and get them both functional again. I have began to do research for the training, LM, and decode process that I will conduct on each drone and Caesar to make sure that the results are all similar on each machine. I tested creatExp.pl on Caesar to see if that was a functional script to automate the process a bit.

Week Ending August 10th, 2017
I went to the server room to check on the drones because it seems that some of them got kicked out of the OS screen so they were either stuck in BIOS or not powered on. I powered them all on and made sure they booted to bios. I did this so I could test to make sure that the SSH was working on each of the machines. This will ensure that I don't run into any issues when it comes time to use the drones to experiment. I was playing with the addExp.pl script and found that it does have one error that I am not sure how to get rid of but it doesn't effect how the experiments were created. I was able to create the https://foss.unh.edu/projects/index.php/Speech:Exps_0302 so I can add all of the sub experiments to it when the time comes. I only have one sub experiment on it right now called experiment on Caesar.

Week Ending August 17th, 2017
This week I had some trouble with Idefix and Obelix while trying to SSH into them from home. I found out that this error was due to them running but they were not completely loaded into the OS Red Hat. I went to the server room and did a power cycle, went through the BIOS settings and finally got to the OS. Now I can SSH to all of the drone machines. I also tested the CopyExp.pl script that I will be using to copy the initial train and LM from Caesar to the drone on Caesar. I also further tested the RunAll portion of the train script in the createExp.pl that does seem to have any issues at this point so I can choose to use it for the experiments.

Week Ending August 24th, 2017
This week my goal was to archive the old Spring 2017 experiments and get the Exp directory ready for the 0302 Summer 17 directory. I did this by copying 0295-0301 experiments in the EXP directory in mnt/main to the new destination where they will reside which is in Exp as sp17. My other goal for the week was to start another experiment on Caesar. This will then be copied to the drone machines via the copyExp.pl script.