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So it’s finally spring break! School has been pretty crazy the last two weeks, and Alicia has been busy with work, so we haven’t updated in a while… Alicia did get a new haircut, so be sure to follow the link for some pictures!

Spring break is here, and I’m glad. I actually have a lot of work to do over spring break, so it’s nice not to have to worry about going to class for a couple of days. I have a bunch of projects to work on, which I’ll expand on later, and I have to clean the apartment by Wednesday as Alicia’s mom is coming to visit. Now our apartment isn’t too unclean, but things have piled up a little the last few days…

Alicia went and got her haircut yesterday, and I really like it. I should really get my haircut as well! So maybe I’ll try to get that done as well this week…

So here are the projects I need to work on. First, I am starting a GPGPU (General Purpose computation on GPUs) project for my Advanced Operating Systems class. I’m pretty excited about this, as nVidia now provides a the ability to run custom C code on some of its graphics cards. For my project, I will try to implement some encryption algorithms (most likely AES) in parallel to run on the GPU, and compare its performance to running it solely on the processor. My true goal is to then use this for on-the-fly hard drive encryption. For me to be able to do this, I am going to be building small Linux box, since my other computer uses an ATI card. This project should be quite a bit of fun, so I’ll try to post some updates as it comes along.

I will also be working on a non-class project that is based on YouTube statistics models, but I can’t say too much at this point. I’ll write another post on this later as well. Oh, and on top of this, my normal computer crashed the other day (due to user clumsiness… I stepped on the power switch on the UPS), and now the parts of the OS are corrupt, so I can’t boot into it. Of course, its not as simple as that, I have two SATA drives that are striped, and XP isn’t recognizing the drivers at the moment, so that will also be what I will work on the next couple of days. I would have liked to have taken care of this earlier, but I just haven’t had the time.

So for now that is it, but now that I have a week off, I will update this blog a little more with some cool things that have happened the last few weeks, and I am planning on starting a recurrent feature, so be sure to check back for it. Until then, greetings to everyone, and I hope you are all doing well!

- flusokof

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