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 :-).