NCHC Internship Report Week 3 & 4: October 4th – October 13th 2010

INTERNSHIP WEEKLY TIME AND ACTIVITY REPORT

National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) 
Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Basic Information:

• Name: Mulyadi Pasaribu
• Intern Organization: National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC)
• Advisors: Wei-Ping Jia: CEO of BCUA, Chia-Chen Kuo: Associate Research Scientist of NCHC, Steven Shiau: Associate Research Scientist of NCHC, Panut Hadisiswoyo: Founding Director of OIC
• Supervisors: Ceasar Sun, Jazz Wang and Thomas Tsai from the Free Software Lab, NCHC
• Service Period: October 4th – October 13th 2010

Weekly Report:

Time/Date	Daily Log
	10/04/10	10/05/10	10/06/10	10/07/10	10/08/10	10/11/10	10/12/10	10/13/10
Time In	09.00 AM	Attending ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei		09.05 AM	08.55 AM	09.10 AM	09.05 AM	08.50 AM
Time Out	05.30 PM			05.20 PM	05.10 PM	05.30 PM	05.30 PM	02.30 PM

Scheduled Activities:

1. 10/04: Clonezilla – Backup, Restore, Multicast
2. 10/05: Attending ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei
3. 10/06: Attending ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei
4. 10/07: Self Learning: Clonezilla
5. 10/08: Translating DRBL Software from English to Bahasa
6. 10/11: Q & A
7. 10/12: Q & A
8. 10/13: Tux2Live

Assignment: Translating DRBL Software from English to Bahasa

Self Note:

1. 10/04: This is the third week for me doing internship in NCHC and today I learn another open source software that developed by the Free Software Lab at NCHC. The software name is Clonezilla and this software used for backup and restore system. This in another free software that can be used and implemented in the CDOC as this software will help to clone a system from one PC to other PC.
   
   Mr. Thomas also teach me on how to use the Virtualbox OSE as an environment to trying the functionality of the Clonezilla software. Virtualbox is a new software for me and this will help a lot because with this software I didn't afraid to do try and error or experiment in laptop or PC as this is only a virtual machine that didn't affect the the real system in our machine.
   
   On this day I also got an assignment to translate the DRBL software from US English to ID Bahasa. The translation is different with previous Partclone software that only had few lines of sentences. DRBL translation is more than 800 lines and this need much time to be finished as sometimes the software language is much different with daily language.
   
   
2. 10/05: This day I didn't come to NCHC as I attend the ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei. ADOC = APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Digital Opportunity Center.
   
   
3. 10/06: This day I didn't come to NCHC as I attend the ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei. When the conference break for lunch, we got a good news because ADOC (supported by Asus Foundation) will help the mobile CDOC by providing 16 new laptops.
   
   
4. 10/07: This day I didn't learn anything new. I only doing self learning about Clonezilla software and started to translating the DRBL software from English to Bahasa.
   
   
5. 10/08: This is the last day of my 3rd week doing internship on NCHC (October 8th). On this day actually I scheduled to learn about Winroll and Tux2Live with Mr. Ceasar but because miss communication about the schedule so we can not learn the lesson and I spent the day to continue translation of DRBL Software from English to Bahasa.
   
   
6. 10/11: This is the first day of my last week doing internship on NCHC. On this day we scheduled to have a Question and Answer discussion about all of the lessons I learn during my internship time. Actually I can learn the lesson well and I didn't had much question to ask. But today I know one of interesting information about NCHC when we having discussion with Ms. Kuo, Apple, Panut, A'al, Okta, Kieran, Nick and one of NCHC staff in the 2nd floor meeting room of NCHC. I just realize that NCHC is not only about open source software development but also have many other divisions that doing research and development such as multimedia design for education purpose. On this day, I also make a short presentation about what I've learn during my internship on NCHC.
   
   
   
   Interesting Multimedia Tools in NCHC
   
   
7. 10/12: This day I didn't learn new lesson as the scheduled activity for today is Question and Answer. I only spent this day to continue translation of DRBL Software from English to Bahasa.
   
   
8. 10/13: This is the last day for me doing internship on NCHC and this day I learn about Tux2Live with Mr. Ceasar. Actually Mr. Ceasar also scheduled to teach me about how to compile an open source software, but because I know my self and my current skill level in programming, I prefer not to learn about how to compile open source because I think I can't reach the limit to learn about it now, so maybe in the future.