The Google Summer of Code 2009 final evaluation deadline is today; 19 UTC. I don’t have time to summarize my summer here now, but there are two things I want to say to the world. First, I want to thank many people for enriching my summer. Second, I would like to announce the Clobi project on Google Code.
Acknowledgement
- Kate Keahey (Argnonne National Laboratory/The Globus Alliance/Nimbus team).
She offered me a fabulous mentorship. I assess this at its true worth by looking at what I’ve learned throughout the summer just because of these great conversations
. Thank you for all your support and dedication and for pushing me and the project forwards!
- Tim Freeman and David LaBissoniere (Argnonne National Laboratory/The Globus Alliance/Nimbus team).
Wonderful, extensive and patient extra-premium-support-with-special-treatment regarding Nimbus/Workspace in the MUD. Thank you so much! You smoothed my technical way through the project.
- Ian Ward (creator of urwid, a console user interface library for Python).
He supported me so great while I was implementing the user interface for Clobi’s Resource Manager using urwid‘s new SelectEventLoop technology. Talking to him saved so much valuable time. Thank you!
- Mitchell Garnaat (the creator of boto, a Python interface to Amazon Web Services) and the boto users mailinglist.
Great and essential support since almost one year now. Thank you very much for answering many questions!
- Predrag Buncic (CernVM) and Artem Harutyunyan (ALICE@LHC).
Thank you for your support regarding CernVM on Nimbus!
- Jakub Moscicki, Ulrik Egede, Johannes Elmsheuser and the rest of the Ganga crew.
Thanks a lot for very important, effective and efficient support concerning the system behind Clobi and Clobi’s Ganga backend. You are great!
- Stefan Kluth and Stefan Stonjek (ATLAS@LHC, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich)
Thank you for many helpful discussions, support and beautiful times in Munich!
- Borja Sotomayor (University of Chicago, Globus Alliance).
He made a great job as GSoC mentoring organization administrator. Thank you for this and for introducing the MUD .
- Paul D Marshall.
Thank you for discussions regarding dynamical deployment of computing resources.
- Xiaoming Gao.
Thank you for the exciting cooperation regarding Virtual Block Stores for Nimbus.
- Alex Martelli.
He answered an important Python question that most people could not answer. Smoothed my way to implement inter thread communication in Clobi’s Resource Manager.
Clobi @ Google Code
In this blog post I introduced Clobi, the result of this Google Summer of Code project. Today, I created a new project page for Clobi on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/clobi/
As a first action, I pushed my local mercurial code repository into the online repository. You can browse the code here and you can look through the development history (the commits I’ve made) here.
Then I prepared a test release of all Clobi components. You can get it in the download section.
That’s all about Clobi for the next time. From tomorrow on, I will go on with my master thesis project in Physics (about Magnetic Particle Imaging). Next week, the ICMRM conference in Montanta starts and I’ve to make a poster for my contribution (abstract here).
I will go on with Clobi, when there is more free time .
Jan-Philip, my congratulations on the birth of Clobi
!
I will checkout Clobi and the project sources for sure – I am also interested in contributing to the Clobi project… Let’s see how much free time is available within the next months.
All the best for your master thesis project!
Which license do you have planned for the Clobi project? I would recommend on Apache License, but that decision depends on your future plans for Clobi…
Thank you! I’m excited what the future brings along, but I don’t expect too much
(because of my own time..)
After reading about all the licensing stuff a few weeks ago, I decided to use Apache 2.0!