CMSC412 - Project #0 : submission instructions

Linuxlab machines (accessible from console or over the network) are the standard, supported, development environment for the project. We will test by running your projects on a linuxlab machine, without necessarily being there (e.g.remote connection with ssh).

So the good news is you don't have to physically be there to test it before submission; you can ssh, export DISPLAY, run bochs etc. The bad news is that you must test it on a linuxlab machine. "It runs on my bochs at home" is not an excuse for a project that doesn't run.

Once again, before submitting make sure your project *runs atop of a bochs running on a linuxlab machine*. It doesn't matter whether you are at UMD in the Linuxlab or at home to test that fact.

Submitting your code

The submit program is in /afs/csic/bin/submit on the class Linux cluster. You should do your submit as follows:

cd ~/project0-cyclone/build
gmake clean
cd ../..
tar cvf proj0.tar project0-cyclone
gzip proj0.tar
/afs/csic/submit/bin/submit 0 proj0.tar.gz

Checking your submission

Use the command:

ls -l /afs/csic/submit/cmsc412/MP0/cs412XYZ*

where XYZ is of course your account number. You should see one file that has the same size as your submitted file. Later submissions will overwrite earlier ones.

It is important to cleanup .o's before submitting (by doing gmake clean as shown above) and to make sure you submit a tar file that contains project0-cyclone as the directory it creates. When you unpack this tar file, you should be able to cd to project-cyclone/build, and then type gmake to make the entire project build with no problems.