<i>Wilson's Updates</i>

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<td>Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013</td>
<td>Set up a local YCSB instance with a dummy database and tested by running a core workflow provided by YCSB</td>

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<td>Sunday, Feb 24, 2013</td>
<td>Did a bit of digging on basic usage for MongoDB. Got YCSB to work with MongoDB and successfully running all core workflows provided by YCSB on my local mongoDB instance.</td>

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<td>Saturday, Mar 2, 2013</td>
<td>Poked around EC2 control panel to get a better idea of how instances were configured and what options were out there.</td>

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<td>Saturday, Mar 9, 2013</td>
<td>Launched and configured 5 medium instances which will be used as the distributive environment to test the different databases.</td>

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<td>Sunday, Mar 10, 2013</td>
<td>Installed mongoDB on all 5 instances.</td>

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<td>Saturday, Mar 16, 2013</td>
<td>Began researching how to set up MongoDB in distributed manner. Looked into replication and sharding.</td>

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<td>Sunday, Mar 17, 2013</td>
<td>Successfully deployed 2 geographically distributed replicas</td>

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<td>Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013</td>
<td>Successfully deployed 2 replica sets spanning 3 instances each, containing a Master, Arbiter and Slave</td>

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<td>Thursday, Mar 21, 2013</td>
<td>Successfully created a shard cluster with each of the 2 existing replica sets representing a shard. Set up MongoDB infrastructure to allow clear and easy configuration of replica sets and the shard cluster.</td>

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<td>Thursday, Mar 27, 2013</td>
<td>Tested limitations on workload capacities with the given instance size.</td>

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<td>Thursday, Mar 31, 2013</td>
<td>Updated shard cluster configuration with new shard key and inner architecture to avoid some errors and achieve minor optimization.</td>

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<td>Wednesday, Apr 1-5, 2013</td>
<td>Performed final benchmark runs.</td>

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<td>Wednesday, Apr 3/4, 2013</td>
<td>Worked on group presentation.</td>

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<td>Wednesday, Apr 8, 2013</td>
<td>Finished final group report.</td>

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