Gabriel's Journals

• This week we decided to meet on Thursday.
• I have finished up making my LiveCD, including testing our current port of Storytelling Alice on it. Just a few tweaks remain to get it in a more usable form.
• I will be linking up with Billy to help him out with resolving the runtime errors he has been getting in order to finish the Storytelling Alice to Alice 2.2 port.
• This was our last meeting for the semester.

• Had our usual meeting today to catch up on what everyone worked on over the break and prior.
• For the moment we have decided to put our original port of Storytelling Alice on the LiveCD as our port of Alice 2.2 is still in the works. This week I will meet with Dr. Gardner to do this.
• Also, Scott and Michelle will be trying to convert their lessons to LaTeX. I have some experience with it and will be helping them do so.

• Thanksgiving break, no meeting...

• Dr. Feng and Dr. Gardner are away this week, but the other CREU students and I still decided to meet.
• For the time being I have completed my LiveCD and will help Billy, Michelle, and Scott with their work.
• The plan is to have Storytelling Alice and the lessons we have created on the LiveCD to be used in teaching programming.

• The Debian boot issues persist and therefore I have decided to focus on the Arch Linux LiveCD.
• Due to another appointment I missed the meeting on Monday, so Billy and I met today to discuss our progress.
• I have begun helping Billy with running Storytelling Alice on Linux and I may have found a possible solution. Hopefully next week we can incorporate his new port in my LiveCD.

• This past week I successfully created an Arch Linux LiveCD.
• In creating new Debian LiveCDs, I have run into an issue booting and will have to debug the issue.
• For next week, I shall try to get working environments with Storytelling Alice running from the LiveCDs.
• Also, I will be looking into reducing the size of the images, stripping out what is unnecessary.

• Last week I was able to produce a LiveCD using Debian and began creating one for Arch Linux.
• The Debian LiveCD does not yet contain Storytelling Alice, so this week I will be creating a LiveCD with the software and also complete the Arch Linux one.
• When Billy finishes his port, I will put it in my LiveCDs so we can test those environments.

• Last week we published the site's new journal system.
• I provided Dr. Tilevich's graduate student working on J-Orchestra with our Linux port of Storytelling Alice so that he may test it.
• I discovered that my test machine's hard drive is failing, so I had to back up the contents and will have to find a replacement.
• As I am waiting on the new version of J-Orchestra, for the coming week I will be looking into delivery methods for Storytelling Alice. Specifically, I am to create small LiveCD images with Storytelling Alice preloaded.

• This past week I set up a virtual machine to run Storytelling Alice in using J-Orchestra.
• I ran into issues as J-Orchestra was designed to be used with an old version of Java.
• I talked to its creator, Dr. Tilevich, and met with one of his graduate students that is working on a new version. For now I will provide him with our Linux port so that he may test running it using J-Orchestra.
• Last week I worked on the site and have nearly finalized it. It will hopefully be going up in a few days.

• This past week I briefly looked over lesson 3 and gave a bit of feedback.
• I continued working with Billy and Scott on the new site.
• My literature review for power-aware virtualization is complete and I plan to meet with Dr. Feng this week to discuss my findings.
• I have set up an environment to test Storytelling Alice running in a VM and partitioned with J-Orchestra. I will be getting our code and testing the setup this week.

• Continued making updates of the new journal system for web site.
• Looked over Lesson 2 that Michelle finished and gave some comments and critique.
• Having met with David, determined that we should be able to use J-Orchestra to partition Storytelling Alice. This allow us to run the graphic rendering code on clients so as to avoid sending graphics over the network.
• This upcoming week I will be trying to get Storytelling Alice working with J-Orchestra.
• Also, I shall hopefully complete the literature review I have been working on for power-aware virtualization.

• Briefly discussed my progress in reading several papers dealing with power-aware virtualization.
• Talked about possibly using J-Orchestra for Storytelling Alice.
• We discovered that FlatPress would not be a simple install, so we will continue updating the web site with our code.
• For the next week, I will be meeting up with David, who best knows the code of Storytelling Alice here.
• Also, I am to write summaries of the papers I read, outlining their strengths and weaknesses.

• Second meeting with everyone. Meetings to regularly occur on Mondays for now.
• Began reading up on power-aware Xen.

• The first official meeting of the semester with Billy, Michelle, Scott, and Dr. Feng.
• We met to go over what responsibilities each of us would have this semester and the work we were to do for the following week.
• Began reaquainting myself with the work we did last semester.