I received a check from Delta Airlines for Maryna's stolen luggage, this was encouraging. Today, I cashed the check and gave the money to Maryna.
Today I woke around 10am. That was earlier than yesterday, but today has not been as productive. I have been trying to get myself to work on my programming assignment for Data Structures II, but working with sorting algorithms just doesn't seem very appealing lately. My research, on the other hand, has been doing very well. For the first time, I feel like I have the time to track down leads and reference from paper to paper. It really is amazing how you can narrow down what your looking for with this common approach -- I never appreciated it before because I could never free up enough time to spend hours reading, download, and printing papers. Hopefully I will finish my programming assignment tonight so that I can free up the rest of the week for reading. Ultimately, one goal for the week was to begin a draft for the IAS'04 conference. I should like to get on to that as well.
Other priorities (but not for this week) AA (who has begun referring to himself as A^2) and MP are all hyped up on simulating PGAs with GridSim. GridSim does justice as a simulator. However, it comes nowhere close to where it needs to be to simulate the scheduling involved with a PGA, or any other complex Parallel algorithm. Anything simulated with this software is really a complex guess based on the assumption that the computation time will be much larger than the scheduling or communication cost of a system - not always accurate.
Yet Another Change In Direction (YACID) I will actually implement the PGAs - but I will do so in an MPI environment first. Globus supposedly supports MPI IO functions through its Nexus library. This is the logical way to go. Develop it for MPI, see if it is worth the effort to adapt it to the GRID environment. If it isn't adaptable to the GRID, at least I will have something to show for my class credit.
It's terrible when you have to sink down to this level - to think in these terms. Mostly, I am willing to do this for two reasons. One, I don't care for OSU and if I have to stay here for my Master's, I would like to get it over with as quickly as possible. Two, while this week is open, I typically don't have that much time to spend on my classes - hence I do as little as possible to
get by. Ugly, and I don't like it, but necessary.
I wrote
this not realizing that
Pi and
Requiem for a Dream are done by the same director. Before going to bed last night I noticed the similarities. Minor, of course, pointed it out this morning.
