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PROJECT LEADER: Robert Blackwood
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Bell's VRUPL lab is in need of repair and networking. We are going to assist in getting the lab into working condition.
PROJECT LEADER: Walter Dworak
DESCRIPTION: Moving the DCHP and ADDC roles, and other services to a new Windows Server Machine. The old machine is running Windows Server 2008 and the new machine is running Windows Server 2008 R2, so the change should not be as hard as moving from an NT4or5 to NT6 or moving from an NT based system to linux.
PURPOSE: The current machine charged with these roles, amadeus, is not meeting the necessary performance requirements to be a reliable sever, so the jobs are being moved to a new machine.
FURTHER READING: Any Microsoft documents related to moving Server roles between NT6 systems, and any other relevant documents from other sources.
All tasks are completed.
PROJECT LEADER: Andrew Sennebogen
DESCRIPTION: We are going to use old ACCC P4 machines to create a computing cluster.
PURPOSE: The foremost goal of building the cluster is going to be the experience of putting together a working computing cluster. How it can be deployed (for what practical computing purposes) remains to be determined, but we have been assured by Prof. Theys that a use can be found.
FURTHER READING: Computer Cluster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_%28computing%29)
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The 16 port gigabit would be for upgrading the 1 in the white rack mount. The 8 port gigabit would be for replacing the 2 on the tables The 16 port 10/100 would be for sig-build, networking for the cluster - the machines only have 10/100 nics
This would upgrade the ACM office to 10/100/1000 and provide sig-build with enough switches for the cluster projects.
PROJECT LEADER: Anne Celestino
DESCRIPTION: Prof. Theys has CUDA-capable graphics cards he is willing to donate to ACM-Sigbuild, and we are looking to purchase the components surrounding these cards that would constitute a working CUDA machine.
PURPOSE: This will enable computer science students to learn CUDA programming.
FURTHER READING: Compute Unified Device Architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA)
It is possible to change that motherboard, to this one EVGA 170-BL-E762-A1 LGA 1366 Intel X58 4-WAY SLI Classified XL ATX (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188059) - $499. With the original build list, I would be at $1602 and with the EVGA board, it will be $1702.
PROJECT LEADER: Josh Herman
DESCRIPTION: Two supercomputers were donated to ACM member Josh Herman by professor Jan Verschelde. Josh is working to get these clustered and up and running as part of a research project.
PURPOSE: Josh Herman - The Chicago-01 supercomputer project is a research oriented supercomputer. Its primary goals are to investigate the following: Run code such as PHCPack (the implementation of polynomial homotopies exploiting structure in order to better approximate all isolated solutions) or basically find an optimal solution for hard polynominal systems. Another goal is to perform research on a novel network architecture utilizing artin braid groups as a algebra of networks. This will allow for the addition and subtraction of nodes in the network to be topologically invariant by the use of concatenation of the artin braid group. The last goal is to explore the use of GPU and possibly reconfigurable computing architectures like FPGA gates for the optimization of tasks on the supercomputer.
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