User:Jaustin

About Me

My name is John Austin. I am a Junior triple majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Theology. Currently I am working on the Embedded XINU Operating System under Dr. Dennis Brylow.

REU 2020 Weekly Logs

Week 1:

• Orientation

• Went over what to expect from REU

• Bootcamp

• Overview of different Data Science and Machine Learning Concepts

• Met with XINU team daily

• Figured out project

• Began initial research into past papers written on XINU and reading up on xV6 o/s to brainstorm how to overhaul current concurrency system

• Started Research training

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Week 2:

• Met with XINU team frequently

• Read about Xv6 O/S used at MIT

• Read about PortOS used at Cornell University

• Research Training with Dr. Brylow

• Online RCR Training

• Technical Writing Seminar with Dr. Brylow and Dr. Praveen

• Debugged Issue with multi-core functionality in XINU

• Went on ACM and tried to find related work for our specific field (there isn't much in our sphere, however it was still useful nevertheless)

• Checked out potential new O/S book for Marquette Operating Systems Course (COSC 3250)

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Week 3

• Met with XINU team Monday to check in

• Spent majority of time trying to debug/figure out how to test genuine multi-core message passing which took up the majority of the week

• Finished (at least I believe so) multi-core message passing

• Check-in with Dr. Brylow and Dr. Praveen

• Read Research Paper on Wait-Free Synchronization

• Set up GitHub in my local directory on Morbius

• Discussion on Wait-Free Paper with Team XINU on Thursday

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Week 4

• Implemented Working Multi-Core Message Passing System into XINU

• Read up on DFixer Algorithm

• Started on Mini-Presentation

• Discussed with Team XINU how to add more atomic functions to XINU

• Check in with Dr. Brylow and Dr. Praveen

• Bug Fixing on Message Passing System (There is still potential for an inconsistent system view)

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