Author Archives: ed
Bush’s Last Day
In Dupont Circle, people were throwing shoes at a giant Pinocchio Bush. On the Metro, things were getting crowded.
The madness begins…
I’m getting more and more excited by the minute. The crowds are beginning to gather–so far, it’s feeling like a busier-than-average tourist season day, but word on the street is than 1 million people will descend on the Lincoln memorial … Continue reading
Photo blogging!
In the Chem building, about to leave. I discovered it’s easy to blog photos from my phone. Fun!
Blog the inaug
This seems as good a time as any to revive a never really functional blog: the historic inauguration of Barack Obama. I’m heading out to DC later today along with three other grad students willing to sacrifice a few days … Continue reading
XgridLite on Leopard, continued…
As it turns out, the privilege failure mentioned in the last post was not being reported by the calls to xgridctl to start and stop the controller, but rather the ones that were trying to simply get what the current … Continue reading
XgridLite on Leopard: almost there, hopefully
To those who have been requesting that XgridLite start working on Leopard: first of all, sorry it’s taken so long for me to think about it. I didn’t even upgrade myself to Leopard until the middle of this year, and … Continue reading
Google Summer of Code
I was interviewed at Google for a Summer of Code Podcast last week.
File transfer overview
GridSweeper’s file transfer mechanism is designed to allow transfer of input and output files in a grid system-independent way. In environments without a real IT infrastructure, such as my own ad-hoc Xgrid setup, a shared filesystem will not necessarily be … Continue reading
Preliminary Javadoc completed
Between driving from San Francisco and selling furniture on Craigslist, this weekend I wrote preliminary Javadoc for all of last summer’s GridSweeper work. A very valuable exercise before diving into coding: it made me look through every single method I … Continue reading