SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012
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Using Business Workflows to Improve Quality of Experiments in Distributed Systems Research
SESSION: Research Poster Reception
EVENT TYPE: Posters and Electronic Posters
TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM
SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler
AUTHOR(S):Tomasz Buchert, Lucas Nussbaum
ROOM:East Entrance
ABSTRACT:
Distributed systems pose many difficult problems to researchers. Due to their large-scale complexity, their numerous constituents (e.g., computing nodes, network links) tend to fail in unpredictable ways. This particular fragility of experiment execution threatens reproducibility, often considered to be a foundation of experimental science.
We present a new approach to description and execution of experiments involving large-scale computer installations. The main idea consists in describing the experiment as workflow and using achievements of Business Workflow Management to reliably and efficiently execute it. Moreover, to facilitate the design process, the framework provides abstractions that hide unnecessary complexity from the user. The implementation of an experiment engine that fulfills our goals is underway.
During the poster presentation I will discuss motivation for my work and explain why we chose our approach. Moreover, I will show demonstration of currently developed experiment engine.
Chair/Author Details:
Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich
Tomasz Buchert - INRIA
Lucas Nussbaum - Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications
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Using Business Workflows to Improve Quality of Experiments in Distributed Systems Research
SESSION: Research Poster Reception
EVENT TYPE:
TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM
SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler
AUTHOR(S):Tomasz Buchert, Lucas Nussbaum
ROOM:East Entrance
ABSTRACT:
Distributed systems pose many difficult problems to researchers. Due to their large-scale complexity, their numerous constituents (e.g., computing nodes, network links) tend to fail in unpredictable ways. This particular fragility of experiment execution threatens reproducibility, often considered to be a foundation of experimental science.
We present a new approach to description and execution of experiments involving large-scale computer installations. The main idea consists in describing the experiment as workflow and using achievements of Business Workflow Management to reliably and efficiently execute it. Moreover, to facilitate the design process, the framework provides abstractions that hide unnecessary complexity from the user. The implementation of an experiment engine that fulfills our goals is underway.
During the poster presentation I will discuss motivation for my work and explain why we chose our approach. Moreover, I will show demonstration of currently developed experiment engine.
Chair/Author Details:
Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich
Tomasz Buchert - INRIA
Lucas Nussbaum - Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications
Click here to download .ics calendar file