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From Code to Creation: Exploring UNH Hack NH

By Phoebe Garfield - January 29, 2025

The UNH Interoperability Lab hosted the 7th Annual Hack New Hampshire hackathon, where talented students from the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS) showcased their programming skills. This year, 85% of participants were Computer Science (CS) majors, reflecting a 27% increase from 2023 and highlighting the growing interest in hackathons among CS undergraduates on campus.

During the weekend event, teams collaborated to tackle a challenge: developing an app to guide new students around UNH Durham campus. From Friday...

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Tags: STEM

5 Lessons Learned in Hosting a CI Test Lab at IOL For Open Source Projects

By Patrick Robb - September 26, 2024

Today’s open source landscape features an ever-expanding number of mature projects with development activity spanning across multiple organizations. Developers on these projects come from large and small enterprises, educational institutions, and a pool of unaffiliated, open source developers. This diverse group of contributors work together to enable their projects’ core goals or use cases. However, with this diversity of projects, developers, and outcomes, there are challenges. How can we reliably meet the needs of all stakeholders? When setting up a...

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Meet the Interns 2024

By Rita Agrawal - July 3, 2024

We are thrilled to welcome 8 talented and enthusiastic rising high school seniors to this year's HighTech Bound internship program! These students have shown a passion for technology and dedication to learning multiple programming languages, website development, and game design. We can't wait to see what these interns accomplish during the next 6 weeks!

Anirudh

Anirudh is the attendee of an early college entrance program in Texas. He has hit the ground running...

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Honoring Diversity at UNH-IOL

By - June 24, 2024

June is Pride Month, a time to praise progress made towards LGBTQ+ rights and to reflect on the journey ahead.

At the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where our students, staff, and membership community feel welcome and supported.

Pride Month reminds us that inclusion is more than welcoming people into our community; it’s about cultivating an environment where everyone feels they belong. To support our commitment...

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Meet the 2023 HighTech Bound Interns

By Grace Silha - June 5, 2023

We are excited to kick off yet another summer for the UNH-IOL HighTech Bound Internship program, a program designed for rising high school seniors interested in pursuing a future in technology. This coming summer marks our 17th year of the internship reaching over 130+ students from across the country.

We welcome 10 passionate students to UNH this July who are coming from New Hampshire all the way from North Carolina. Projects will involve hands-on software development, FPGA board design,...

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Tags: STEM

UNH Hack New Hampshire: Let the Games Begin!

By Lindsey Murphy - May 2, 2023

The UNH Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) hosted its 6th annual Hack New Hampshire technology challenge in April. UNH students were invited to participate in teams and compete over the weekend for industry sponsored, cash prizes.

This year's challenge was to ‘Create a Game that must include a Leaderboard’. A total of 8 teams and 25 students from the UNH College of Engineering & Physical Sciences (CEPS) competed for their chance to take home first, second, or third place and prize...

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Virtual Machines with Bridges on VMware vSphere

By Lincoln Lavoie - March 6, 2023

In a recent project, we decided to explore using the Cisco NX-OS 9000v virtual switch as part of our pre-deployment testing infrastructure. The virtual switch functions identical to our actual NX-OS hardware switches, but with the benefit of running purely as a virtual machine (VM) or appliance on top of our cloud infrastructure. That cloud infrastructure is a multi-node vSphere deployment, that uses distributed vSwitches, each having multiple uplink port groups, to provide high availability across the network domains. Figure...

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The DPDK Community Lab: Reflecting on 2022 and Looking Ahead

By Patrick Robb - February 28, 2023

Hosted by The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), the DPDK Community Lab exists to provide prompt and reliable continuous integration(CI) testing for all new patches submitted to DPDK by its community of developers. Every time a patch is submitted to DPDK Patchwork, it is automatically applied to the main DPDK branch, or the appropriate next- branch, and run across our test beds. Now entering its 6th year in operation, the Community Lab has progressed beyond its initial goal...

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My DSL Journey working from intern to undergrad test technician

By Zachary Simone - October 3, 2022

My name is Zachary Simone, and I am currently a junior at UNH majoring in computer science. I have worked at the UNH Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) for almost two years, as I started in December of 2020. Prior to this, I had the honor of being a part of the IOL HighTech Bound internship during the summer of my high school junior year in(2019). At the time, I was attending the Seacoast School of Technology for a more in depth...

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Meet the 2022 HighTech Bound Interns

By Libby Stone - June 26, 2022

We are very excited for this year's HighTech Bound Internship Program to start on July 11th! Read below to learn more about our 9 interns for this year.

Ohm

Ohm is a rising senior at Aliso Niguel High School in California, our farthest traveler this summer. He has experience coding in Java, Python, and C++. Ohm is passionate about electricity and magnetism and wants to explore the field of electronics and related...

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Tags: STEM