Joseph J. Gawronski
June 21, 2005, Professor Gawronski built and implemented Franklin University's first working cluster computer dubbed supernova_0.franklin.edu using six 600 mhz PCs and Rocks v3.1.0 (Matterhorn) cluster software based on Redhat 7.3 and MPI software from the NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) and registered it as cluster #589 in the International Rock Cluster database.
August 22, 2006, Professor Gawronski upgraded the Cluster to use seven 1.0 Ghz PCs and renamed the cluster galileo.franklin.edu and it is now registered as cluster #914 in the International Rocks Cluster database.
Rocks Cluster Computer for Grad. School parallel programming course
Special Projects:
Practicum Course Servers
June 2006, Professor Gawronski began building, configuring, and implementing the following servers to meet the August 2006 launch
schedule for the new Computer Science practicum course sequence COMP-294, COMP-394, COMP-495 using HP netserver
hardware:
babbage.franklin.edu
plato.franklin.edu
leonardo.franklin.edu
BS degree in Mathematics from The Ohio State University
MBA degree from The University of Dayton
MS degree in Computer Science from Franklin University
A Linux desktop Experience
July 2006, as part of the project to build servers and a facility to house the Cluster computers, and Practicum servers,
a number of desktop machines were loaded with assorted flavors of Linux to give students an opportunity to experience an alternative
to the Windows XP desktop environment. Professor Gawronski loaded and set-up desktops with Red Hat Linux 9.0, Fedora Core-5,
Ubuntu Linux 5.1.0, and LinSpire 5.0.59.