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A Framework for Thermal and Performance Management
Davide Basilio Bartolini, Politecnico di Milano; Filippo Sironi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Martina Maggio, Lund University; Riccardo Cattaneo and Donatella Sciuto, Politecnico di Milano; Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano an ...michele - December 16, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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Monitoring the Dynamics of Network Traffic by Recursive Multi-Dimensional Aggregation
Midori Kato, Keio University; Kenjiro Cho, IIJ/Keio University; Michio Honda, NEC Europe Ltd.; Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University A promising way to capture the characteristics of changing traffic is to extract significant flow clusters in traffic. However, ...michele - December 16, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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A State-Machine Approach to Disambiguating Supercomputer Event Logs
Jon Stearley, Robert Ballance, and Lara Bauman, Sandia National Laboratories Supercomputer components are inherently stateful and interdependent, so accurate assessment of an event on one component often requires knowledge of previous events on that compo ...michele - December 16, 2021 - 8:52 pm
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Uncertainty in Aggregate Estimates from Sampled Distributed Traces
Nate Coehlo, Arif Merchant, and Murray Stokely, Google, Inc. Tracing mechanisms in distributed systems give important insight into system properties and are usually sampled to control overhead. At Google, Dapper [8] is the always-on system for distributed ...michele - December 16, 2021 - 8:52 pm
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Mojave: A Recommendation System for Software Upgrades
Rekha Bachwani, Rutgers University; Olivier Crameri, EPFL; Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL Software upgrades are frequent. Unfortunately, many of the upgrades either fail or misbehave. We argue that many of these failures can ...michele - December 16, 2021 - 8:52 pm
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DNSSEC Deployment in.gov: Progress and Lessons Learned
IPv6 and DNSSEC Practice and Experience Report Scott Rose, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) In 2008, the US Federal government mandated that all Federal-owned DNS zones must deploy DNSSEC. Initial deployments lagged and were often err ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 11:52 am
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Transparent System Call Based Performance Debugging for Cloud Computing
Nikhil Khadke, Michael P. Kasick, Soila P. Kavulya, Jiaqi Tan, and Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University Problem diagnosis and debugging in distributed environments such as the cloud and popular distributed systems frameworks has been a hard proble ...michele - December 16, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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A Simple File Storage System for Web Applications
like network attached file systems. This paper describes our implementation and the operating ... experience with the storage system. The paper also presents a feature roadmap and our release of an open ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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IDO: Intelligent Data Outsourcing with Improved RAID Reconstruction Performance in Large-Scale Data Centers
RAID-reconstruction performance in particular has become crucial. To address the problem, this paper proposes IDO ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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Theia: Visual Signatures for Problem Diagnosis in Large Hadoop Clusters
University Awarded Best Student Paper! Diagnosing performance problems in large distributed systems can ... data and gain insight on the root-cause. In this paper we describe Theia, a visualization tool that ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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Lessons in iOS Device Configuration Management
paper describes the requirements and implementation of the configuration management solution, security ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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A Declarative Approach to Automated Configuration
John A. Hewson and Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh; Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh System administrators increasingly use declarative, object-oriented languages to configure their systems. Extending such systems wi ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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Preventing the Revealing of Online Passwords to Inappropriate Websites with LoginInspector
Chuan Yue, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Awarded Best Paper! Modern Web browsers ... inappropriate low-security websites or even phishing websites. In this paper, we address this limitation of ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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XUTools: Unix Commands for Processing Next-Generation Structured Text
regular languages upon which Unix textprocessing tools can practically compute. In this paper, we propose ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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Managing User Requests With the Grand Unified Task System (GUTS)
Andrew Stromme, Danica J. Sutherland, Alexander Burka, Benjamin Lipton, Nicholas Felt, Rebecca Roelofs, Daniel-Elia Feist-Alexandrov, Steve Dini, and Allen Welkie, Swarthmore College As system administrators who are also full-time students, we aim to min ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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Bayllocator: A Proactive System to Predict Server Utilization and Dynamically Allocate Memory Resources Using Bayesian Networks and Ballooning
mathematical methods. In this paper, the application of discrete Bayesian networks is evaluated, to offer ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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A Sustainable Model for ICT Capacity Building in Developing Countries
bauild systems which are able to survive and grow in these over-constrained environments? In this paper ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 12:52 pm
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Teaching System Administration
Steve VanDevender, University of Oregon For the past twelve years I have taught a one-term college-level class introducing students to the discipline of system administration. I discuss how the class was created, the considerations that went into designin ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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Training and Professional Development in an IT Community
George William Herbert, Taos Mountain, Inc. This paper describes training and professional ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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Extensible Monitoring with Nagios and Messaging Middleware
This paper explores the use of messaging middleware, in an open-source project called NagMQ, as a way ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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Efficient Multidimensional Aggregation for Large Scale Monitoring
or aggregation. In this paper, we introduce an aggregation technique which is able to handle multiple ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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On the Accurate Identification of Network Service Dependencies in Distributed Systems
managing resources more effectively. This paper introduces three novel techniques to assist in the ... configured for load balancing or backup purposes. This paper also presents the experimental evaluation of ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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What Your CDN Won't Tell You: Optimizing a News Website for Speed and Stability
paper, the authors discuss their experiences implementing, operating, and optimizing a content delivery ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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Building a 100K log/sec Logging Infrastructure
destinations (including proprietary appliances). This paper will cover the options considered, the choices made ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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Building a Protocol Validator for Business to Business Communications
paper we describe the design and implementation of a system essential to enable the deregulation of the ...arnold - December 16, 2021 - 1:52 pm