[Clusterusers] still need info on cluster use for grant report ASAP

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

I'm going to send this to the list so that others can elaborate (Chris 
Perry is away, so perhaps he won't be checking email this weekend, so 
although I don't have as much info as he does, maybe it will suffice)

Brian Kendall rendered his div III, which from my perspective had lots 
to do with really pretty looking Maya grass, on the temporarily combined 
cluster. However, I haven't seen it yet, and I don't know the title of 
it. I'm cc'ing him on this email so that he can fill you in.

I think Evan Viera did some of the rendering for his Div III on the 
cluster, but I'm not sure. I'm cc'ing him as well so he can give details 
if necessary.

 cs223 (graphics for programmers) used the cluster to render a bunch of 
very memory and processor intensive scenes, in particular two "crowd" 
scenes that had thousands of characters each, with procedural variations 
on each character. We were rendering them at HD res (1920x1080), and it 
used so much RAM that even on the 4GB nodes we had to split each frame 
into four pieces, because the node ran out of RAM, then ran out of swap, 
and then prman crashed, understandably :)

Michael or Perry, did cs334 do any rendering on the cluster this 
semester? The borders between cs334 (Originally Computer Graphics III, 
otherwise known as The Uprising Project - Chris Perry's advanced 
computer graphics course, which spilled over into an independent study 
by the name of Computer Graphics IV this Spring) and cs223 are somewhat 
fuzzy at times :)

Let me know if I can be useful in any other way.

    -Josiah



Lee Spector wrote:

>
> Cluster users,
>
> I have to report to NSF on the use of our cluster, which they have so  
> generously funded, and I have to do it this weekend -- it's due next  
> week and there are nasty consequences if it is late. So far I have  
> some information on cluster use by:
>
> Jaime Davila
> Rob Anderson
> David Prude
> Wm. Josiah Erikson
>
> I also have mention of use for classes cs334 and cs223, but not any  
> details about this usage, and use by people with first names Michael,  
> Brian, and Evan to "render all kinds of stuff, Brian in particular  
> for his Division III."
>
> I think I have almost enough info(but not quite -- see below) on  
> Jaime, Rob, and David's work and from Josiah on the cluster upgrades  
> and status. But I still need:
>
> - Full names and more info about usage of Michael, Brian, and Evan.
> - The title of Evan's Div III.
> - The title of Rob Anderson's Div III.
> - The title of David Prude's Div III.
> - More info (about a sentence each) on how it was used for cs334 and  
> cs223.
> - ANY OTHER USAGE BY ANY OTHER FACULTY FOR RESEARCH/ART/ETC PROJECTS
> - ANY OTHER USAGE BY ANY OTHER CLASSES (WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS)
> - ANY OTHER USAGE BY ANY OTHER STUDENTS (WITH FULL NAMES AND BRIEF  
> DESCRIPTIONS OF USAGE)
> - ANY PUBLICATIONS OR OTHER PRODUCTS (THIS INCLUDES DIV IIIs) WITH  
> ALL AVAILABLE CITATION INFO.
>
> Sorry to be a pest about this, but considering how much money NSF  
> gave us for this they deserve a full report (and we should give it to  
> them if we want more money in the future!).
>
> Thanks,
>
>  -Lee
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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> School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College
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