Day 1

Today was the first day in the lab and thus I only worked for a few hours in the afternoon.

I got acquainted with the lab and the researchers here, and was given a workstation on which to work.

The first milestone for my project is to get a GraspIt! up and running on a virtual machine. The testing framework will use different virtual machines to run specific test on the code in different environments and on different platforms.

After creating my new user on the computer, I downloaded and installed VMware Workstation. I created a new virtual machine in VMware on which to work, and installed a fresh copy of Windows XP. There wasn't enough time to install Service Pack 2, so I downloaded all of the files and libraries relevant to GraspIt!