10.31
ok so it’s been a good 12 days since my last post, but hey, life is hell.
got a 35/50 on the parallel processing test, which puts be 1 point behind the highest score. since boppana grades based on the entire coarse, that means i got basically a 99. if you’re on the CS network, check out the distrobution here. i kinda botched the last assignment, but i still have an A in the bag
got a near perfect on the concurrency test, which was cool, cause i didn’t have to do the actual redo.
now remember that project way back when where i wanted to do crystalRIP properly? well, i will have the chance this semester. i pitched the idea for my concurrency project, which dr. robbins loved. i will be doing the multi-threaded version of it for that coarse, and analyzing its performance. i also pitched the idea to dr. boppana and he loved it so much, he’s letting me do it with MPI. that’s kinda amazing since he said he didn’t want people to choose their assignment. “i’ll let you do this because i like the idea alot” is what he said to be when we had a meeting.
basically what this project will do is rip and encode a cd concurrently, either with pthreads or MPI. pretty nifty eh? class credit for a free-lance project of mine.
christmas is comin around, need to plan something. some people may be getting an invitation to something.
im supposed to be getting “a big bonus” for this holiday season, so hopefully that’ll mean i’ll get to get crystal that thing she has been asking about ;)
tonight i have to go back to austin, we’ll see if i have the energy to go downtown and take pictures. that reminds me, i need to start deciding what pictures should go into my portfolio.
man, i’ve been so damn busy, if i make it through this semester with an A average, there will be a bountiful feast fit for a king, but for all to share; if ya follow my drift. beer will flow like water, and food will be succulent.
i will make a post later tonight about my trials and tribulations with dvd burning in linux.