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Thread: Research Log: Updates from the Harvard Team |
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Former Member
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We had a quick team meeting for the new proposal this morning to chart out the layout and the overall strategy. Now the parameters are set and we just have to hunker down to get it on paper. Off we go...
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Hmpf - yet another big grant proposal needs to be written... This is the bane of academic life :( Makes you yearn for the days when your grant proposals could be handled more simply, doesn't it? |
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We’ve had some trouble with the new jabba03 storage array: while we were setting it up a bot hacked into it, so it had to be swiped clean and set up from scratch again. What a nuisance.
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We’ve had some trouble with the new jabba03 storage array: while we were setting it up a bot hacked into it, so it had to be swiped clean and set up from scratch again. What a nuisance. And all over the WCG universe (or just mine?) eyes opened wide and minds thought "A bot?!?!? How did they get it, and did and does the penetration route include access to CEP2 downloads?!?!?". Far bet it from me to lecture (  ) but a little information is dangerous given the number of instances where WCG is running concurrently as people are paying their bills online, checking their bank account balances, making purchases, etc.Better too much information...like Jabba03 was two firewalls and subnets away from production systems while being configured. A surplus of information prevents people like me from reconsidering the efforts I've made to make things "easy" for WCG traffic internally. |
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Given that _4 result subfile is the only thing *going* directly to Harvard, a one way route, and BOINC *IS* sandboxed by default but for those clients prior to 5.xx, it's one of those non-worries for the largest majority of crunchers [and why WCG uses https.... like those doing banking from the same host :D]
----------------------------------------Think we're going to watch a rerun of Gene Wilder's High Anxiety tonight. There's still though that teething question: Is it save? --//-- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Apr 20, 2012 12:30:00 PM] |
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Last chance to vote for the new Aspuru-Guzik cluster name! The poll will close at noon EST, i.e., in a bit over one and a half hours.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NPHLYS |
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Hi ibsteve2u,
great one! We'll repost it sometimes soon  . Oh, and no worries about the bot - the new jabba box was on a completely different network during setup and apparently it got compromised sometimes in the short time between plugging it in and changing the passwords... Harvard security immediately detected and isolated it. But the machine was nowhere near the live WCG rig anyways - that sits behind a rather sophisticated firewall - and our work was in no way compromised or even effected, asides from us having to scrub the box and set it up again. For all intents and purposes, jabba03 was not part of CEP yet but essentially a workstation (with a lot of hds) on the vast Harvard network. But you are right - we should have made this clear from the beginning. Sorry about that. Best wishes Your Harvard CEP team |
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@cleanenergy - thanks for the clarification...always better to hear "You've got a disease that has killed millions over the years but now we have an antibiotic that knocks it out in eight hours." rather than just "You've got a disease that has killed millions over the years.".
@sekerob - communications protocol used is moot when a bot is running on your box; it isn't doing "man in the middle", it is siphoning directly from the well. Listening to "Don't worry, be happy!" is both what got the U.S. economy in the predicament it is in now and what has recently given a lot of Apple users an unpleasant surprise. |
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The CEP team went to a talk by Professor Ullrich Steiner from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (England) yesterday. His seminar was part of the Materials Science Seminar series and titled "Self-Assembled Energy Materials". Prof. Steiner discussed some of the aspects important to OPVs that we usually do not focus on, i.e., the morphology and device architecture.
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This one has nothing to do with our science – it’s cool nonetheless ;). Have a nice weekend everybody!
http://xkcd.com/1040/ |
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