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Anthony Mack 
Welcome to my homepage. This page is mostly a place for me to express some of my ideas and also tell you a little about myself. The domain "DeepWaveEnergy.com", is a remnant of a company I created (and then dissolved) in an attempt to fund a feasibility study for my wave energy converter idea (see sidebar Ideas). I am still looking for a way to find out if that idea is economically feasible and how it could be implemented. If you have any ideas, please contact me. First a little about myself: I have been happily married to my wife Susan for over 20 years and we live in a log cabin in Silverado Canyon, Orange County, California. Our daughter Jillian still lives with us while she goes to college and works at PetSmart. My stepsons, Ric and Rob have moved out. Ric is 5 years into his 1 year trip to Japan. Rob has recently married, has a child and is now buying a house. See the resume section below for education and job history, but basically I am a senior systems software engineer. For those of you who are not into computers, that means I'm a computer programmer who writes the really hard and complex programs. I like hard problems. My mom told me when I was a small boy, "The harder the problem, the more fun it is to solve." It's true, a problem is just a puzzle in disguise. And I love puzzles. So needless to say, I am very happy in my job at Unitech. However, I can't get enough. At home, I'm constantly amusing Susan with my creative solutions to every problem (aka puzzle). You might enjoy reading about my WaterGate, solar water heater, pump system, reptile cage and barn. Finally, there is a section on my hobbies and another on my un-implemented ideas. These ideas I thought of and designed by myself (mostly in the shower). Any similarity to existing products or ideas is coincidental. I often find out that someone else has beaten me to it. Resume In my position at Unitech, I currently spend most of my time working on a performance monitor. I designed, implemented, tested and documented a performance monitoring tool for our largest client, Hitachi. It is a graphical tool capable of displaying, recording and analyzing critical resources used by hundreds of computers running thousands of threads. The tool presents a Blade or Cluster computer operator with three different views of the entire system’s health. The Analysis View shows which processes and/or threads are in trouble (if any). The Real-Time View allows the operator to see many specific metrics about any machine, process or thread in real-time. The History View presents months of metric data (memory, CPU and lock statistics) in a custom, variable density database. There are also special tools for identifying memory leaks, dead locks, hanging open files, signals, system calls, unexpected terminations and remote core dumps. The monitoring tool is implemented in two parts: the Agent, a super optimal layer that sits between each application and the OS, and the Monitor, a GUI application written in Java designed to run on the operator’s console. The two halves communicate using a proprietary protocol that allows the monitoring of machines anywhere on the Internet. Before the monitor, I spent many years developing a half dozen compiler back-ends, also for Hitachi. A back-end is the code generator part of a compiler. It's the hardest part because it does all the code optimizations (both on the high-level and instruction level optimizations). If I can shave a few instructions off of a code sequence, every customer's application runs faster. The front-end parses a language and turns it into Common Intermediate Language (CIL), a "C" like tree structure language. The idea was to build a front-end for each language (COBOL, C, C++, Java, etc.) And a back-end for each platform (Intel x86, IA-64, HPPA, SPARC, PowerPC, etc.). Now you can build a compiler for any language that generates code for any architecture. Unfortunately only one front-end took off, COBOL. This means that all the back-ends I worked on became COBOL compilers. There are many other projects I worked on as well. If you go to page 6 of the brochure, you'll see "XML data handling". That was my baby. I designed it and was project leader from start to finish. For most of the project we had 3 or 4 engineers on the XML team. I also developed Hitachi's XML parser (with DOM and SAX), C++ compiler, linker and other little projects. That's one thing I truly like about working for Unitech, you get to work on different areas so the job never gets stale or boring.
My next
car is going to be an Aptera!
Haven't heard of it? That's ok, no one has. That
is because they don't exist yet. Aptera is a small
startup company down in Oceanside, CA that is trying to
make the world's most efficient car. This car is designed right. They dropped a wheel to
reduce rolling resistance by 25%. I'm #888 in a line of 3000 people waiting to get one. Unfortunately, they are waiting on D.O.E. grant money to build their assembly line. It will take 9 months to build the line once the money comes in, so unfortunately I'm not getting it this year. Hobbies
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