About Mentor Project Journal Final Report
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June 21 - 25

Some Odd Results

On Monday I made some graphs of the log with the filter cache. However, some of the results from the graphs didn't seem quite right. The method that I've been working on should be reducing the overall cycles of the system, but that just isn't happening for some reason. The amount of writes is being reduced greatly, so some of these results just aren't making sense.

On Tuesday I went to a research session to help undergraduates with looking information up on some databases. The woman who ran it was really friendly, and overall the session was pretty helpful. I learned some things about databases in general that I didn't know to look for before.

A LOT of Debugging

Then, on Tuesday afternoon, Cesare suggested that I run the system with a slightly different cache configuration to see if the cycles would be different. When I tried to run the system with this configuration, it didn't work with my logging module. It turns out that writing in the log skips some processes that are necessary for this configuration to work. Little did I know that this would lead to a frustrating week.

I've spent the rest of the week debugging, with a lot of help from Cesare! The problem is getting better, as it now works and runs when the instructions and data are stored in a separate cache, but not when they're stored in the same cache. It just seems like once one problem is fixed, another one comes up. This has definitely been a hard week for me, as I've never encountered a debugging situation like this before, and I feel like I don't know enough about how the simulator works as a whole to come up with a solution quickly. I'll hopefully resolve the problem with instructions and data being stored in the same cache on Monday!

Weekend
This weekend wasn't too eventful for me (but it was very nice to relax!) On Friday I checked out a new ice cream place around the corner with Kristin and some of her friends from Hamilton. On Saturday, I walked up to the Brown campus and continued to study for the GREs on Lincoln Field, one of the campus quads(not so fun, but the weather was nice!) Other than that, I've just been relaxing in the very warm weather.