Seminar on Performance Analysis Tools and Techniques for Large Scale Distributed Systems (IN2107)
Prof. Dr. Michael Gerndt, M.Sc Isaac Nunez
| Dates: | Wednesdays (3 or 4 dates) 12:30 to 14:30, Room 01.06.020 |
| Planning meeting: | Mittwoch, 04.02, 16:00 via Zoom Zoom |
| First meeting: | tbd |
| ECTS: | 5 |
| Language: | Englisch |
| Type: | Seminar, 2S |
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| Registration | Registration is through the matching system. |
| Pre-registration | Email: isaac.nunez(at)tum.de Subject: [Seminar Pre-registration] …. |
Pre-meeting Recording
Motivation und Inhalt
Large-Scale distributed systems are used in HPC and the Cloud for meeting the computational demand of applications. In both areas understanding the performance is important to improve the turnaround time and the costs of applications. While in HPC we have a quite static application scenario, the resources are reserved for a period of time, in Cloud elastic adaptation of resources to the work load is prominent. In both areas, state-of-the-art server processors in combination with GPUs are used in big data centers.
The goal of this seminar is to investigate the architectures in both fields and compare the existing performance analysis techniques and tools. Both areas require profiling and tracing, but log processing, for example, is only used in the Cloud. Challenges are the overheads introduced by the tools, the analyzability of the generated huge data sets, and the tool‘s scalability.
Organization
The seminar is structured into three phases. The first phase is devoted to HPC and Cloud architectures. The second phase is devoted to performance analysis tools and techniques. The third phase will be devoted to a comparison of the existing techniques, identifying well established areas and gaps.
The first two phases will cover student presentations which will be given in two meetings in the middle of the semester. The last phase will require each student to write a summary report identifying established techniques and gaps. These reports will be discussed in a third meeting.
Thus, the deliverables for each student are:
- Concept paper for the presentation outlining the flow and the papers on which the presentation is based.
- Presentation on the chosen topic in Architecture or Tools
- Summary report on the presented topics identifying established techniques and gaps.
We currently plan to have the three meetings during semester plus meetings with your supervisor, of course.
Registration
Registration is through the matching system.