After the demo, we were asked to review Lup Peng's blog at IHPC. Their development process seems interesting, but there are some parts that I couldn`t understand well due to the technical terms used. Nevertheless, it was interesting reading about their experience developing the LightDraw project, which was initially a gaming project, and slowly evolved to LightDraw. The blog actually provided me with what I will be doing throughout my intern, and reading it was thus preparing myself and getting the overview of the work to be done.
Thereafter, we were also tasked to research on Linux OS, and select 2 versions that suits what we will be doing. When I saw the list of Linux OS available, I was surprised as I initially only knew about Red Hat Linux OS, and thought that it was the only OS available for linux.
We researched for almost 30 minutes, and was pondering on 32 bit and 64 bit architecture, when Kelvin give us a lesson on the differences and their advantages. Sincerely speaking, if now I were to ask any of my friends which is better, most will certainly says 64 bit, because "it has more bits". It was only today I found out of the advantages and disadvantages of 64 bit. It is able to support > 4gb of memory, however, if the application developed does not use much data type of size 64 bits, there won`t be any differences in terms of speed and performance.
Thanks Dr.Kelvin and Dr.Ming Hong for your guidance
My favorite task was when it comes down to setting up desktops and installing the OS. I haven`t done it for a long long time since my Secondary School days, and I terribly missed assembling PCs, setting up computers and installing OS in them.
Can`t wait for tomorrow to setup the PCs and install Linux OS! Feeling excited once again!
Thereafter, we were also tasked to research on Linux OS, and select 2 versions that suits what we will be doing. When I saw the list of Linux OS available, I was surprised as I initially only knew about Red Hat Linux OS, and thought that it was the only OS available for linux.
We researched for almost 30 minutes, and was pondering on 32 bit and 64 bit architecture, when Kelvin give us a lesson on the differences and their advantages. Sincerely speaking, if now I were to ask any of my friends which is better, most will certainly says 64 bit, because "it has more bits". It was only today I found out of the advantages and disadvantages of 64 bit. It is able to support > 4gb of memory, however, if the application developed does not use much data type of size 64 bits, there won`t be any differences in terms of speed and performance.
Thanks Dr.Kelvin and Dr.Ming Hong for your guidance
My favorite task was when it comes down to setting up desktops and installing the OS. I haven`t done it for a long long time since my Secondary School days, and I terribly missed assembling PCs, setting up computers and installing OS in them.
Can`t wait for tomorrow to setup the PCs and install Linux OS! Feeling excited once again!
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