CRA-W DMP Program Summer 2004

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Week 2

At work this week we got Scale loaded onto our computers andattempted to compile it. Jon helped Julie get the Trips backend working on her machine so she could step through the program and get an overall feel for it. I spent much of my week getting Scale to compile on my little G4 PowerBook. There were tons of environment variables to set, I had to download Eclipse and learn to use it, and I had to sort out some issues with making the program work in Eclipse. By the end of the week, however, I was able to get all but two packages compiled in the PowerPC backend. The next steps will be to go through the program to get a better feel for it, and then to study the PowerPC ISA. I hope to get started implementing the backend soon, and I hope that it goes smoothly, because I would very much like to do some additional research afterwards that I could use for my senior thesis when I return to UVA in the fall.

Outside of work, I got to hang out with the CS people a bit more. We went out for dinner at a sushi place for Walter's birthday on Friday (Happy Birthday Walter!), which was a lot of fun. I went out swing dancing Friday night at a place called Mother Eagan's where they had a live swing band called the ACME Song Company. The band played on an outdoor stage and they were awesome. There was dancing right up in front of the stage and I got to dance with a lot of people I remembered from the previous Thursday dance. Saturday morning I went for another run at Town Lake. I improved my time on the 7 mile run by about five minutes this week. On Saturday night Julia and I went to a comedy show after a dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Sunday morning we went to this absolutely amazing place called Hamilton Pool where a natural spring feeds a waterfall into a giant pool. It was one of the most gorgeous things that I have ever seen. Afterwards we went to lunch at the Oasis. The Oasis is a restaurant that overlooks Lake Travis and is built on this beautiful hillside. I'm making a list of all the places I will have to take Andy when he comes to visit me the first week in July and Hamilton Pool and the Oasis are definitely on it!

Maria and me by the waterfall at Hamilton Pool

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