Week 2 (2/3/2012) Spring 2012

Week 2 (2/3/2012) Spring 2012

RCOS is on a roll. A lot of students are showing enthusiasm and motivation to RCOS.
I am hopeful that the enthusiasm and work ethics towards the open source software development.

This week we had two talk.

1) Brendan Ashby, Jonathan Skurka, Mike Casper and Andrew Bradely on pLANner http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/planer/

2) Rob Escriva '10 on HyperDex


Brendon, Jonathan, Mike and Andrew talked about pLANner - their final report of the fall semester. Their system is useful for on line gaming clubs. Currently only administrators can log in and not the players. Also only single elimination is implemented. But their progress in very good. Their development is good, but still needs work to be used by various organizations. They plan to continue working on this project and hope they will accomplish a lot more this semester

Rob talked about HyperDex his research work at Cornell University on distributed data base. Instead of key value pairs, his scheme uses hashing based on attributes. He also uses clever schemes to maintain consistency when the records are stored across different computers. Rob also compared his scheme with Cassandra and MongoDB competing Databases. Rob used different workloads for comparing the different methods. HyperDex seems to work well and it will be nice to have RCOS students use and test this. Rob as usual gave an excellent talk and the slides were very well thought out. His talk is well worth emulating (mainly applies to me!)

The RCOS URP applications are being collected and hopefully we will all be set for Spring 2012.