Project Isthmus

• Timeline: Winter 2006 — Present (A number of experiments have been completed.)
• Real-time results grapher: brevecluster.nmu.edu/cgi-bin/grapher.cgi (May or may not be insightful, depending on what's going on at that moment.) Static examples (snapshots of graphs from 2006): October 20, December 8
• File repository related to research done on the cluster: check out the files folder.
• Presentations and papers:
  • "Distributed Evolution of Self Assembling Agents." 11th Annual "Celebration of Student Research & Creative Works." April 2006. (Initial work on this project; presented as a 25 minute talk.)
  • Also presented as an hour-long talk in the Winter 2006 Colloquium Series of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department.
  • Research prospectus: Evolving Behaviors for Simulated Kinematic Self Replicators. August 2006.
  • "Artificial Evolved Motile Autotrophic Reproduction." 12th Annual "Celebration of Student Research & Creative Works." April 2007.
  • "A Simulation of Evolved Autotrophic Reproduction." GECCO 2007. (Abstract for the poster session accepted to the main conference.)
  • "A Simulation of Evolved Autotrophic Reproduction." GECCO 2007 Undergraduate Workshop. (Full paper accepted for the GECCO 2007 Undergraduate Workshop; essentially done, however, still tidying things up for a "camera-ready copy." If you wish to read a copy of the paper in advance of this, please contact Brian Krent or Correy Kowall.)

Project Waterhole

BI 498, Winter 2008

• Timeline: Winter 2007 — Winter 2008
• Description: A project to be conducted by Chris Wells, who is doing an undergraduate directed study project (BI 498) under the guidance of Dr. Mac Strand from the Biology Department.
• Researcher: Chris Wells, Student
• Supervising faculty member: Dr. Mac Strand, Associate Professor, Biology Department
• Movie: Teaser video of the development codebase being run in the breve simulation environment.

Project SimSynergy

CS 498, Summer 2007

• Timeline: Beginning in Summer 2007
• Purposes and goals:
  • Primary purpose: Project SimSynergy aims to create a 3D simulation environment (physics engine and visualization) optimized for the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.). Initial target platform: Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 with the Cell/B.E. SDK 3.0 on the PlayStation 3.
  • Secondary purpose: Study of the Cell processor for computational research (in general).
  • Tertiary purpose: Evaluation as a potential platform for replacing breveCluster.
• People: Brian Krent and Cory Perry. Dr. Jeffrey Horn will be the faculty advisor.