In: 2:00 pm | Out: 8:30 pm
Today was my first day working with Dr. Shane Mayor and CSU Chico's Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL) Research Group. I set up a work station in Physical Science 128 - this is where I'll be spending most of my time.
The majority of the work was to assemble the PC I'll be using. Since I may be running some CUDA based software, I was given a NVIDIA Geforce GPU to install, and the motherboard is equipped with an Intel Xeon processor. I have two rotatabe widesceen monitors which will be ideal for programming and I was given a solid state drive to install my OS on.
Since I will need to connect to the REAL group's data farm via Secure Shell, Linux is the obvious OS choice. However, several Fedora and OpenSuse distributions have encountered glitches and failed to install. I was booting from flash drives, so perhaps that's part of the issue. Tomorrow I'll bring some disks and try again.
My Workstation:
