Update

This past weekend I was away doing some work for the student union.

While I do sometimes do actual work for the student union, this time it largely consisted of laying out in the sun during the day reading documentation about GridFTP and XIO (and in the evening, sauna and beer). Nice weekend indeed.

Last week I also discussed some aspects of the project with my mentor, in particular the possibility to add some intelligence to the compression. One example of this would be to let the driver have access to a number of compression algorithms and do some analysis of the data before determining which one to use. Another, simpler, method would be to let the driver keep track of of the compression ratio of the last few blocks and stop compressing if it's below a certain threshold (i.e., just wasting CPU cycles).

Now, there is a whole bunch of questions that need to be answered before I can say if this is a) a good idea and b) feasible within the time-frame of the project. But it does sound neat, so I will definitely look into this further.

Other than that, my time right now is mainly consumed by course-work, in particular my current lab assignment. This will likely be the case until the end of the semester, but I can probably still sneak in a bit of GSoC time here and there.