IBM Linux Technology Center

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IBM Linux Technology Center

• Rachel 1st Internship

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Company History

• IBM
• Founded 1889
• 350,000 Employees in 170 Countries
• Linux Technology Center
• Founded 1999
• 600 Employees in 38 Locations
• An IBM team of open source software developers
  who work in cooperation with the Linux open
  source development community
• Provides support for Linux on IBM Products
• Works on various open source projects

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Employment Information

• 22.75 / hour
• 40 hours / week, 900-530, very flexible
• 1.5x pay for overtime, few hours per week allowed
• Paid Holidays
• 5 Sick Days, No vacation
• Other Perks
• Could work from home, but was discouraged
• Department Company Wide Events (Picnic,
  Paintball, Ice Cream Social, Wine Cheese
  Tasting, etc.)?
• Discounts
• Go home early day before a holiday

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Reporting Structure
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My Project

• SystemTap GUI
• An Eclipse based IDE for developing, running and
  analysing the output of SystemTap scripts
• Main Tasks
• Update Enhance
• Integrate Graphing Visualization Tool
• Create Dashboard

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SystemTap

• SystemTap provides a simple command line
  interface and scripting language for writing
  instrumentation for a live running kernel.
• In simplified terms
• A scripting language
• Gets information out of a running kernel
• For debugging and information gathering

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SystemTap GUI

• Phase 1 Tasks
• Update to work with latest version of SystemTap
• Add tooltips
• Fix bugs
• Learned
• How to get oriented with a large program
• Importance of documenting code
• ROI Myself- High, Company- Medium

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SystemTap GUI

• Phase 2 Task
• Integrate an Eclipse based graphing and analysis
  tool from IBM research
• Not yet open sourced
• Learned
• Working with people in a remote location
• The Eclipse platform can do a lot
• ROI Myself Medium, Company Medium-High if
  graphing gets open sourced, Low if not

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SystemTap GUI

• Phase 3 Tasks
• Create a Dashboard system monitor.
• Designed the SystemTap GUI Data Manager for use
  with the dashboard
• Pipes SystemTap output over a socket to one or
  more clients
• Created a network monitor and framework for
  easily adding new system monitors
• Learned
• Importance of having a project plan
  requirements
• ROI Myself Medium, Company Medium

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Useful Classes

• CS 311- Operating Systems
• CS 352- Usability Engineering
• CS 361- Software Engineering I
• CS 362- Software Engineering II

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• Questions?