Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

Today I meet with administrators and staff members to begin the dialogue of continued development, support, and ownership of my system. I am excited to see the outcome. I also plan to debug the Server's botched Module Query Response and duplicate user query log history responses. I will also be talking to Dr. Wiecking about a couple of subjects concerning the end of my employment here at HPA. Also, I will continue to propagate the help pages as I near a more consistent design for the applications.

Several meetings were successful today. I was able to test cross-campus communication of the programs. They worked very well, responding quickly. I also tested how flexible the Modules were when put into an untested network. After programming them to properly interact with the local settings, they responded with the same fidelity and speed as a main-line module. With this first span test a success, I began a series of load testing of the server. Sadly, the response time to a module is consistently around 200-300 milliseconds. Plenty of time for a single query, but any kind of speed requirement is completely gone. I began testing its ability to handle requests from two different modules. The response fidelity (generating any kind of response) was less than 50% of the time. The servers ability to handle such traffic is highly inconsistent. This establishes this piece of software almost unusable for its intended purpose. Though relatively robust for single module use, the server has not demonstrated an ability to handle more than a single, infrequent query. I will have to conduct research into server creation and management. I hypothesize that a server cannot simply be an application run on a computer, but rather an integrated part of the computer, relying on the technical abilities of the machine to serve quickly and accurately.

Today: 11

Week: 22

Total :248