DSRLab, LLC is dedicated to serving the distributed
systems research community. Be you student, faculty, commercial systems
developer, or enthusiast, we support your efforts through the design, development,
testing, and documentation of free, open source software packages. All of our
software is written for the Linux* OS,
in the C programming language. We sincerely hope that these tools will benefit
your cause.
We strongly believe that Linux provides the best networking environment and that
C is the most appropriate programming language: Anyone who writes in C++ or Java
probably understands C well enough to convert it. And C, as you may already know,
is the language of choice of those who develop and support the Linux OS, and most
of its subsystem support software.
All of what you'll find here has proven its worth. Much of what you'll find here
was developed in support of the development of other, more complex systems. This
is experimental software in the sense that we encourage you to understand
and experiment with the source code, and to customize it toward your own purposes.
New!
Phoenix, whatever else you may say about it, is indisputably a sunny place. That's
why we decided to go green
and run all the equipment in our cluster off of solar power. A charge
controller uses the energy from a photovoltaic panel
to maintain the charge level on a pair of 12 volt, deep
cycle batteries, which are connected to a DC-to-AC inverter
that supplies 110 volts AC to power the PCs, their display screens,
and half a dozen miscellaneous items, like a pencil sharpener, a stapler, and some
wall chargers.
Of course we believe this is the right thing to do, but uppermost in our minds
was the fun we had figuring out how to make it all work!
