User:Michael

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Currently I am a in-between graduate student working at Marquette University. I have completed my thesis (Using Software Transactional Memory in Interrupt-Driven Systems), but it was about one week late — so my graduation was pushed back to August 2009. At the end of the summer I will move to St. Louis and begin working on a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Washington University.

However, until then I am a research assistant for Dr. Dennis Brylow. At present I am continuing my research with software transactional memory and operating systems. In my spare geek time, I plan on fleshing out or starting up various parts of the Embedded Xinu O/S, as well as doing various administrative lab tasks.

If you want more detailed information about me and my academic career you can visit the website of Michael J. Schultz!

Weekly Log (Summer 2009)

Week of May 11

Week of May 18

  • Discussed REU Wiki with REU students.
  • Wrote Flash memory and memory protection pages to the trac wiki with deadlines and some information.
  • Worked on KVM a bit more (no success yet) -- it seems to fail to create the graphics properly which halts the installation process.
  • Created SVN account and branch for wireless driver developer.
  • Began some preliminary work on memory protection (moving to region based memory)

Week of May 25

  • Enjoyed some relaxation time in Galena.

Week of June 1

Week of June 8

  • Got rejected.
  • Reduced conferences to look at for paper submissions.
  • Finished work on region based memory allocator. (source)
    • Xinu now (inefficiently) allocates page sized memory when requests are made.
  • Read paper
    • Stitt, G., Chaudhari, G., and Coole, J. 2008. Traversal caches: a first step towards FPGA acceleration of pointer-based data structures. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM/IFIP international Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (Atlanta, GA, USA, October 19 - 24, 2008). CODES/ISSS '08. ACM, New York, NY, 61-66. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1450135.1450150
  • Built page mapping/unmapping functionality into Xinu for virtual memory
    • TODOs now include:
      • Hacking together TLB initialization and modification code.
      • Correctly use TLB during context switch.
      • Build system call interface and associated system call functions.
      • Make distinction between user-/kernel-level threads and/or processes.

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Week of July 27

Week of August 3