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Cole Brand – An introduction
This presentation prepared for ISSGC’09.
Background
• Previous history has always been about hardware and networks
• Do internal IT work for smaller company
• Use lot of different OS and OS versions
• Familiar with Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac
• Working with computers since about 12
• Love working with databases
Academics
• A AAS in Comp Sci from a 2 year tech school in Eastern Alabama
• A BS in Comp Sci with minors in Elec Eng, Applied Math from University of Houston – Downtown
• At UHD I and a team-mate built Grid.UHD.edu
Grid.UHD.edu
• 48 nodes• Rocks distribution• Had no formal architecture or direction, we
gave it both• Not as maintainable as we would like
(hence my desire to attend ISSGC and learn!)
• Have had a lot of odd requests, that don’t seem “reasonable”
Going Forward
• I want to get into formal work on clusters, especially given my background in hardware and networks
• I’ve been looking at graduate programs, but haven’t started applying yet (Hey, I just graduated ;-)
• Corporate IT is not for me– Think: do the same tiny cog-thing everyday…
Research Interests
• I like what the Rocks group has going right now, but I don’t quite know enough about other options
• I want to help work on making a GUI sort of interface for clusters, as that seems to be something that a lot of people would like, but it may already exist
• I intend to bring my background of hardware and networking installations and troubleshooting to bear to add value to the current projects underway, pending a distinct focus on graduate work
Future Plans
• Grad School
• Either R&D or teaching, but I would love to do both– R&D in a corporate environment, not just
academically– Teaching at either a primary-education level
or in a post-secondary level
Questions
• Or as my favorite high-school teacher used to say:
• Questions, comments, rude remarks?
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