Status Report for 05/24/07 to 05/30/07

1. STFILTER and Analyze_Tseri service
I’ve finished updating STFILTER and Analyze_Tseri service to process multiple GPS stations at the same time. Now multiple stations data is shown in one graph. The overhead, I guess, may be linearly increased as the number of stations is increased. However, for time being, it looks fine a few stations. More details will be measured later. In addition, there are a few minor bugs, which will be fixed soon.

Status Report for 05/17/07 to 05/23/07

1. STFILTER portlet and Analyze_Tseri service
I’ve been updating STFILTER and Analyze_Tseri web service to make the system deal with multiple sites (Previously only single site can be supported). The implementation is almost done except displaying multiple graphs by using BFO library. Since the output from analyze_tseri application is a union of multiple outputs of single execution with a single site, the graph should be multiplied or multiple graphs should be displayed in one graph by merging them.

2. Network Bandwidth Information
Yili preferred to install NWS server/client in the nodes of TeraGrid. So, I’m making a list of nodes to install NWS client and server. There might be restrictions using a special port or network traffics. I will keep posted when I have problem.

Status Report for 05/10/07 to 05/16/07

1. STFILTER portlet and Analyze_Tseri service
During the last week, I’ve been updating STFILTER portlet and Analyze_Tseri to make the system to deal with multiple sites. To make sure correct operation, I started with making a test case to run standalone tseri_analysis program. Now, I’m updating STFILTER portlet and Analyze_Tseri webservice and will complete in the early of next week.

2. Network Bandwidth Information
I’ve been looking at again NWS (Network Weather Service) to find out how to get network bandwidth information in Teragrid from NWS but it seems like there is no publicly available method to share. Although we can install NWS server/clients for each node for testing purpose, it will suffer from low scalability.

Status Report for 05/03/07 to 05/09/07

STFILTER portlet and Analyze_Tseri service :
During the last week, I’ve been updating STFILTER portlet by using Db4o to support project management feature. Now STFILTER portlet can save query parameters as a project and reload later. I’ve also updated Analyze_Tseri service by changing interface parameters to receive GRWS URL as an input. Thus, STFILTER portlet doesn’t need to send data as String type. Instead, only GRWS URL is enough. Analyze_Tseri will download by connecting to GRWS service. In the future, Analyze_Tseri will be updated to query GRWS directly with given parameters. The next thing to do is to provide support for processing data from multiple stations.

Status Report for 04/26/07 to 05/02/07

I’m updating STFILTER to work with the object database, Db4o and almost ready to release. I’m planning to demonstrate STFILTER portlet to Marlon in a few days. A few minor issues needs to be considered are as follows (including previous ones):

1. Problems in implementing custom serializer/de-serializer of analyze_tseri service. Making webservice exchange user-defined complex type has some errors.
2. Lock/Un-lock features. I have lock related errors in using Db4o. Currently, I disabled lock features to prevent such errors. But, I don’t know which is better way for STFILTER portlet.
3. Deleting temporary files. Analyze_tseri web service is now saving user’s input and output under a directory in a way a user can download files directly through http protocol. However, at some point, such files should be deleted to save disk spaces. I didn’t decide yet when and which is the best way to do that.