Doug

Doug

Helped Tony with compressor and vibration experiment of piezoelectric cells. Found out that Raj is the IT guy to talk to. Found Raj's desk and he was not there. Did not make contact with Raj. Tried to find specs of the 'average' Science Centre Computer.
 * October 14**

Made contact with Raj and he is not available when I am so try on Monday. Found that the 'average' Science Centre can hibernate but the Admin has restricted the power management and I cannot change it. Started looking at alternative networking such as power-line networking. Started looking at the specifics of how routers, servers and networking work.
 * October 17**

Talked to a hockey mom who works in a data centre about usage of power in the computer server rooms. Found out that air conditioning and other climate controls are factors that are worth looking in to.
 * October 19**

IT was busy with system-wide problem. Did not connect with Raj.
 * October 20**

Called Raj at lunch and no answer.
 * October 21**

Emailed Raj and had a short meeting with him Found out that there are alot of things already implemented by the IT department... all of my ideas... and more... Changing focus of project more towards what the IT department has done to improve power usage.
 * October 22**

Started outlining presentation Brainstormed ideas for use of multimedia in presentation for more excitement.
 * October 23**

Called Raj to catalogue servers, no answer.
 * October 28**

Called Raj to catalogue servers, no answer. Video for presentation.
 * October 29**

Called Raj to catalogue servers, no answer. Getting worried about deadline!
 * October 30**

Researched SSD and found that it uses //much// less energy and produces much less heat. It is faster and more beneficial to large infrastructures that have many users requiring many different pieces of information. The capacity of SSD is limited at the moment but with the relatively recent 'boom' in flash drive technology, there is more research being done to augment and stabalize larger capacity devices. The size of a SSD is smaller than a HDD of the same size. The only downfall is that they are may have a shorter life expectancy than a normal HDD.
 * November 1**

Called Raj to catalogue servers, no answer. Sent an email to set up an appointment.
 * November 3**

Met with Raj and catalogued machines in building plus additional info.
 * November 5**

Collected thoughts about meeting with Raj.
 * November 6**

Started looking through online documents to find power ratings for machines.
 * November 8-10**

Collected general outline of presentation posted below
 * November 12**


 * November 13**


 * November 26**