Worked under the guidance of Dr. Xunfei Jiang to run benchmark tests like PostMark and Whetstone on cluster machinesWorked with PHP and javascript to set up, maintain and upgrade the monitoring systems for some of the cluster machines in Earlham College. The monitoring systems can be found at http://cluster.earlham.edu/profiling/ and http://miniduck.cluster.earlham.edu/Wrote bash and python scripts to generate round robin databases (using rrdtool) and scrape data from all nodes of the cluster machines into the database at discrete intervals

Worked with Dr. Charles Peck to test new generations of LittleFe - an inexpensive six-node Beowulf-style cluster computer that is used for parallel and distributed computing education. More information can be found at littlefe.netWorked on debugging and improving BCCD (Bootable Cluster CD) releases - Linux-based operating systems specifically designed for LittleFe clustersWrote parallel programs in C/C++ using MPI, OpenMP and CUDA to demonstrate speedup, efficiency and load balancing in LittleFe clusters

Worked with Dr. Julie Beier to investigate the possibility of programmatically calculating the mathematical properties of pure simplicial complexes. These calculations, especially for higher dimensional complexes, are extremely tedious.Wrote an object-oriented Sage/Python program under the supervision of Dr. Beier to allow users to input a pure simplicial complex, to manipulate/subdivide it and to calculate its properties

Helped in maintaining a monitoring system that recorded the power consumption of different dorms/buildings on campusWorked with 3D printers and wrote tutorials for using themHelped in fixing Solar Charge Station - a station that collects solar energy and stores it into batteries for charging mobile phones