What is next Research
In a Place, out in Space
If you don’t get the “In a Place, out in Space”, don’t worry most don’t. It comes from Kinks - In a space. If your concerned I would put a reference to a song in my resume, “I am not the Jedi you are looking for”… so move along cause this space is occupied. ANYWAY…
Historically, CAT Services is my default consulting and startup entity. CAT9, LLC and the associated domain https://www.cat9.com/ is an Iowa based LLC business container for all my edge network technology efforts. CAT9 was created to move and maintain compute intellegence onto an autonomous edge network. A smart edge for the network of things frontier. The following is expanded detail for consulting research projects.
ASIC Forge is a technology service startup for data center ASIC miner deployments. The founder and CEO is John Michael Jepson. John and I worked together on the Grundy Center Electric Co-Op Building Deployment for The Mining Store. I am working with John and his team to establish operational monitoring, maintainace and repair of ASIC miners running ARM embedded server boards. The goal of ASIC Forge is to provide ASIC fleet managers with onsite service and SLA metrics that demonstrate tangible ROI.
Ralph Aceves started a new company Hackerstrike. I hosted the development server clusters and assisted the CTO with technology and deployment architectures. Early public templates are availible on http://hs.2cld.net/. When woring with startups, I provide general technology selection and configuration suggestions through open web documents. As Hackerstrike demand grows, we intend to use CAT9 methods for data center management and client automation.
My relationship with Grasshorse Animation Studios and the founder / CTO Steve Jennings is over 10 years old.
When I was researching various Software Defined fill in the blank technologies I looked into open communites leveraging PXE protocal and found DRP by Digital Rebar from Rackn. Rackn co-founder and CEO Rob Hirschfeld had been doing lots of youtube videos and he impressed me with no glory in helping ops intro to DRP. Not long after, he hired Chief Solutions Architect Shane Gibson who I soom meet via SLACK. I got sucked into the community like a geek to cheetos… SO…
To learn DRP by Digital Rebar I started an automatic UX test of the DRP webapp using Cucumber and Selenium to access webdriver.
In reality, the efforts with various state and federal investments have a low probablity of success. But like a resume, the grant documentational processes may expose an oppertunity hidden behind problems the grants are intended to fund.
Due to my relationship with multiple rual community power and telecom utility providers, I was contacted to assist with the Grundy Center Electric Co-Op Building Deployment for The Mining Store. My personal record for progress is at melrose site - test.cat9.com. This was a younger team being creative and moving fast. I ended up getting more involved in the core operational planning as they bumped into various difficulties along the way. I have experience with high energy systems, networking and agricultural construction. May seem like a funny combination but it was a good combination for the Melrose site. Some of the guidance information is contained on a site I maintain at http://aur.2cld.net/docs/.