Notices

This page contains general notices for Simulation.


July 25, 2011 - Final grades have been posted - they should be available via OASIS. You are most welcome to pick-up your graded project and/or final exam. I hope that everyone will have a pleasant and productive month before the fall semester starts. I hope to see you in my Senior Project (CIS 4910) or Networks (CN 4004) class in the future.

July 15, 2011 - Some notes on the project... First of all, here is the grading sheet that will be used for the project - this is nothing new, just what is in the project description. Your success on the project is very important - I am here to help you. If I need to be, I can be in the office during the weekend... no problem (and, I often am here during the weekend in any case as I suspect many of you are as well). The "hard part" is not the simulation program - it is rather the design of the experiments, the execution of the experiments, and the understanding of what the results mean. Some of you are waaaaaay over complicating things :-(. There has been some confusion on if/how the queue of one system (be it master or proxy) needs to be drained before switching to the other. The short answer is, don't worry about it. When your prediction says it is time to switch AND the current system has been on long enough (that is, 5 minutes for the master and 1 minute for the proxy) then do the switch (that is, start sending requests to the newly selected system.

July 11, 2011 - Some notes on the final exam... The final exam will be roughly 40% on material before the midterm and 60% on material after the midterm. At least one problem will come directly from the midterm exam (thus motivating everyone to study the midterm solutions, which are posted here. You will be expected to know the basic syntax and semantics for key CSIM entities including facilities, events, storage, mailboxes, and tables. CSIM manual pages will be included in the exam if any "obscure" details are needed for a problem. You should include in your formula sheet material on CSIM as you think you will need. See below for a reminder of the formula sheet rules.

July 11, 2011 - The following instructions will appear on your midterm exam:

June 23, 2011 - See here for an annoucement of a part-time web developer job opening in the Dean's office. Be sure to also read my newsletter for even more job opportunities... my newsletter is sent to all CSE students and is archived here.

June 23, 2011 - On student request, here are the lecture notes from today's "CSIM install day". I hope that they are helpful. Some students have asked me about the CSIM evaluation version. I have no idea if the evaluation version will work - I have never tried it. Whether or not Mesquite will send you an evaluation version, is up to them. However, please think about what "evaluation" means from a company's perspective and whether or not what you intend to do is evaluate. I would think "evaluation" means to review or test with the intention of purchasing the product if it meets one's requirements. What are your thoughts on this?

June 16, 2011 - Appendix A (distributions) as it will appear in the midterm exam is here.

June 15, 2011 - The following instructions will appear on your midterm exam:

June 15, 2011 - The following instructions will appear on your midterm exam: June 13, 2011 - Assignment #4, problem #3 says "Repeat problem #1 for M/D/1...". This should say "Repeat problem #2 for M/D/1...". Thank you to a sharp eyed student for pointing this out to me (and thus to all).

May 31, 2011 - We are being moved...

May 24, 2011 - My second request to Physical Plant with regards to the whiteboard is here. The URL points to this picture.

May 18, 2011 - My request to Physical Plant with regards to the whiteboard is here. The URL points to this picture.

May 16, 2011 - Welcome to the 2011 summer C semester!

Last update on July 25, 2011