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==Personal Info==
 
==Personal Info==
Hello, my name is Andrei - Constantin Popescu, I usually go by Andrei. I am a second year undergraduate at Polytechnic University of Bucharest,studying at the
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Hello, my name is Andrei - Constantin Popescu, I'm a computer science student about to graduate.
computer science department.
 
  
 
==Contact==  
 
==Contact==  
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The quickest way to reach me on e-mail is the address:
 
The quickest way to reach me on e-mail is the address:
 
popescu.andrei1991@gmail.com - I read  emails on this several times a day.
 
popescu.andrei1991@gmail.com - I read  emails on this several times a day.
My github account is : https://github.com/pandrei  
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My github account is : https://github.com/pandrei
  
I will use this page to keep track of my progress on a daily basis.
 
  
==Project Summary==
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As I have had the priviledge of being selected twice for Google Summer of Code, here are the two separate development logs,one for each year.
Firstly, here can be found my official proposal.
 
https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/popescuandrei/4002
 
  
The purpose of a package managing library ( or tool) is to pass around packages
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[http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991/devlogs2012 Google Summer of Code 2012]
containing data from brlcad tools. The packages are sent via TCP and as a result
 
are using TCP header.
 
TCP -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol
 
  
My current knowledge is that the TCP Payload[1] has a size of 64kb, at least
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[http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991/proposal2014 Google Summer of Code 2014 proposal]
in the linux kernel. There has been a reported incident where libpkg fails to send 24k+ packages.
 
[1] Payload - TCP field containinig effective data (user data, for example).
 
  
I believe this is the reported incident : http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.brlcad.devel/959.
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[http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991/devlogs2014 Google Summer of Code 2014]
 
 
Tpkg will be used for testing the package issue.
 
I am currently researching dstat and ifstat, found via
 
apt-cache search ifstat
 
dstat - versatile resource statistics tool
 
ifstat - InterFace STATistics Monitoring
 
 
 
The curent state of brlcad libpkg is a basic client-server protocol.
 
 
 
==GsoC 2012 progress==
 
 
 
So far I have managed to compile and install brl-cad on a 32-bit Archlinux.
 
I am focusing on the tpkg command to see what exactly happens and properly submitting the global removal patch.
 
 
 
== Daily development log ==
 
21th May - 8th of June -  exams period, minor work on tpkg patch and on the
 
red - black tree test unit.
 
 
 
9th June - working on obtaining commit access asap. Currently developing the
 
performance shell script.
 
 
 
10-11th June - not much work , documenting regarding bash programming.
 
 
 
12-13th June -finishing the shell script, applying feedback given by Erik on the tpkg parameter patch.
 
 
 
14th June - submitting the final version of the shell script.
 
 
 
15-17th of June - learning K&R indentation, learning about POSIX. Finishing the tpkg script and the tpkg.c modifications.
 
 
 
18th of June - unsuccesful attempts to sync the server and client ( To start the client only after server started) using signal handling, docummenting about signal handling
 
 
 
19th of June - unsuccesful attempts to achieve the above by using inter-process communications, understanding thread concepts, docummenting about the basics of fork() , pthreads_
 
 
 
20th of June - sync the server with the client by using a loop to detect a key string (while "Server_ready" isn't found in the log_file the client does not start. Having issues with redirecting output from a background process
 
 
 
21th of June - finished tpkg script for localhost ( both client and server are on the same machine), developing the remote one. (Using two different machines)
 

Latest revision as of 02:19, 9 March 2015

Personal Info[edit]

Hello, my name is Andrei - Constantin Popescu, I'm a computer science student about to graduate.

Contact[edit]

I can usually be found on IRC on #brlcad - freenode, I have various nicknames, depending on availablity : andrei, andrei_, andrei__. The quickest way to reach me on e-mail is the address: popescu.andrei1991@gmail.com - I read emails on this several times a day. My github account is : https://github.com/pandrei


As I have had the priviledge of being selected twice for Google Summer of Code, here are the two separate development logs,one for each year.

Google Summer of Code 2012

Google Summer of Code 2014 proposal

Google Summer of Code 2014