Watt's Up Musings of an original geek

I’ve been working on a Grid Computing project at work for the past few months. The team developed a web application portal with HTML, Servlets and JSPs, grid information repository based on relational database schema and tables, grid services using Globus Toolkit, special drivers for automated provisioning, and a Storage Area Network (SAN) with 2.3TB of disk storage running on a 14 node blade computing environment. In July we went into system test, and have busily been fixing problems since then. Many had to do with using, integrating, installing or configuring five or more software products together. Recently we’ve begun to do performance testing. Over this time I’ve been fixing bugs, and making adjustments to make the system easier to use, and cleaning up little uglies that turn up. There have been times where I’ve had to rewrite something to adjust to the demands of the system. Now I’m nearing the end. I’m beginning to defer doing things, because the return-on-investment is just not worth it. IOW, I can see the light at the end of this project’s tunnel, and it’s time to call it done. I’m sad that it’s coming to an end. I like the camaraderie of everyone working together, and I especially like the challenges of solving the problems that have come up.