Author Archives: blabbecs401

I am now actually consolidating the information our group researched and putting it into wiki articles. Right now I have the main page, the cloud controller, cluster controller, walrus and storage controller. I still need to do node controller and I need to go over everything and fix it up a bit. Our group has […]
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Well, the semester is almost over now, and the documentation is starting to shape up. There’s a lot of information that’s hard to track down, though, which is unfortunate. For now, what I am having to do is make an educated guess. Hopefully I will be able to either verify all of the information or […]
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This post is a couple days late because, unfortunately, I’ve been sick. In any case, the documentation is starting to come together, so we should have something useful by the end of the semester. I’ve still been waiting to here about what format the eucalyptus wiki will eventually be, so for the time being we […]
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Now I have been writing the wiki pages for individual components of the cloud.  I haven’t actually put them on the wiki yet, I want to flesh them out a bit more first. As I did my research, I realized that there’s a lot I’d like to write about in the wiki, but I am […]
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Getting pretty close to being able to write the bulk of the documentation for the overview of the eucalyptus cloud now. Comparing the Eucalyptus user/admin/installing guides to Amazon’s EC2 documentation is helping a lot to close some gaps in information.   I also started working on some images that will help with the documentation. One […]
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Did some more research this week and found more ways in which Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus are similar. It looks like amazon’s S3 is pretty close to what Walrus does, and Amazon’s EBS is close to what the storage controller does. This means that we’ll be able to look at amazon’s documentation to be able […]
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Well, we’re into actually working on the project now. I am working on creating some documentation on the general architecture of a Eucalyptus cloud. I feel like this will be a good thing for  the project to have. It appears as though the architecture of a Eucalyptus cloud is very similar to that of Amazon’s […]
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Personally, I think that the test we used ( http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html ) is pretty silly. The criteria range from mundane to inane, and seem to automatically discount any project that might happen to be windows only (Say, perhaps an open source C#.NET wrapper for DirectX? http://slimdx.org ). I think there is some good information, but other […]
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Well, I am disappointed that I don’t get to work on irrlicht. That project is one that helped me learn C++ and learn about rendering, so it would have been nice to have the chance to give back to the project a little bit. I have worries about working on eucalyptus, that we won’t actually […]
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A couple weeks ago what we did in class was use IRC and wiki. Not really sure how much I can say on it, as neither were really new to me. I think IRC is a great way to be able to meet and talk to people that you would otherwise not get the opportunity […]
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