With the multiple holidays just around the corner and finals week finally coming to an end as of yesterday, gifts are certainly not the only thing wrapping up around our neck of the woods at Sonoma State. And, with that being said, Stephanie and I certainly made some great strides forward after Thanksgiving, leading up until this past week and a half in which we took a break to focus on our finals.
On my end, we played chicken with redundancy, and upon further contemplation and research with Dr. Rivoire, we were able to figure out a much easier way to run our parsing scripts together that was in my previous update. In addition to this, the particular method we decided to pursue also could be done in a fraction of a second.
Rather than using a PERL script to open, run, and search through all of the files to match timestamps (Quite a lengthy process), which also proved extremely tricky for manipulating more files and larger files, we found a function in Bash Script programming that would allow us to ease this process. This Shell script will, instead, run each program (CPU, DISK, and AC) separately, kicking out a .txt file of edited results, and then use an independent function to merge these files together based on a matching time stamp. Although it sounds quite similar (which it is), the run time of this script is 2-3 seconds as opposed to minutes.....hours.....even days if the files were large enough, for the original method.
Wrapping (no pun intended) it back to the topic at hand, this helps us decisively in putting together Stephanie's large amount of collected data. Currently, our goal is to manually create a script that will give us file names that are much easier to use (and read) (Ex: Instead of 000000000001464cpu4-.txt, it would be much cleaner) , and then a final script that will allow the user to enter file names to be parsed and merged.
In conclusion, although we are not quite modeling the power consumption of GPUs, which is the function of the project, we are definitely well on our way to doing so. Once we can smooth out the couple of speed bumps in modeling the Disk, CPU, and AC, then we will aim to consistently and accurately model the GPU.
It certainly has been an event-FULL semester here in the computer science department of Sonoma State. From all of us here on the CREU team, we wish you all a wonderful holiday season! Please celebrate safely and tune in for updates in the coming weeks when we get started on the spring semester!
- Dr. Rivoire, Stephanie, and Vincent
