Next Tuesday (2nd November 2010) we’ll be demoing H2O at the SICSA DEMOfest in Edinburgh.
We’ll be debuting our new H2O visualization tool plus the new, occasionally colourful, posters below:
I created this poster for display in the school’s annual poster session. It is a good summary of the current focus of my research as of December 2008. To summarise, it details a plan to build a database running over lab machines, and gives a few reasons why this is interesting.
Update: I won the best overall poster award at the poster session (the prize, a 16Gb memory stick)!
DBHarvester Poster
You can download the poster here.
You can view a Silverlight Deep Zoom version of the poster here.
Full poster abstract:
The School of Computer Science runs hundreds of computers. The University runs thousands. For large periods of time in each day these computers go unused, wasting processing cycles whilst expensive servers perform tasks such as data warehousing and storage. This project aims to harvest – to identify and use – these in-house resources for use in a distributed database system. The challenges of creating such a system and a proposed solution are discussed in this poster.
I created the following poster for display at a National Science Week open day being held by the University. The intention was to show some of the more interesting aspects of Computer Science to school children around the age of eleven, so I was given the task of creating one for Conway’s Game of Life.
Game of Life Poster
Text from the poster’s introduction:
Conway’s game of life is a simulation of the birth and death of organisms based on certain rules. It is an example of self-replication, where a process can create copies of itself, often forming unexpected and unplanned patterns. This is interesting for Biologists, Philosophers and Mathematicians alike, because it shows that with a simple set of rules and instructions complex patterns can emerge and evolve.The game consists of a collection of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. A user makes an initial configuration and watches how the system evolves.
You can download a PDF version here.
The poster can be used as you see fit, provided correct attribution is given.
As part of our first year as PhD students in St Andrews we have to create a poster for presentation within the school. This poster, formed based on what I’d been reading at the time, discusses the problems of search in distributed systems – why it is difficult, and the various methods for overcoming it.
Search over P2P Poster
You can get a PDF copy of the poster here. I won a best poster for this prize in a school poster session.