Progress Report Meeting - January 2021

Event dates:

Friday, January 8, 2021 - 09:30 to Friday, January 22, 2021 - 12:00

Progress Report Meetings

Due to the exceptional pandemic circumstances, the progress report meeting will be held as 3 events, by theme, and online.

  • Friday, January 8th, 2020, 9h30 - 12h00: Low level, material and trace collection
  • Friday, January 15th, 2020, 10h - 12h30: Distributed application analysis, machine learning
  • Friday, January 22th, 2020, 10h - 12h30: Theia, Trace Compass, hack-a-thon

Participation is by invitation. The target audience is the project participants and guests of the project sponsors.

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January 8th: Low level, hardware and trace collection (Session recordings: First part, second part)

Start time End time Presenter Subject
9:30 9:45 Arnaud Fiorini CPU-GPU tracing usingROCm
9:45 10:00 Bohémond Couka GPU debugging
10:00 10:15 Adel Belkhiri Performance analysis of DPDK-based applications
10:15 10:30 Gabriel Pollo Resolving Indirect Jumps for Dynamic Instrumentation Applications
10:30 10:45 break
10:45 11:00 Pierre-Frédérick Denys Tracing containers and monitoring with Trace Compass and Grafana
11:00 11:15 Christophe Bédard Tracing ROS
11:15 11:30 David Piché EASE scripting optimization
11:30 12:00 Efficios Updates on LTTng
Start time End time Presenter Subject
9:30 9:45 Hervé Kabamba Tracing micro-services and modular IDEs
9:45 10:15 Naser Ezzati Observability compensation paradigm through adaptive tracing
10:15 10:30 Masoumeh Nourollahi From critical path to adaptive tracing?
10:30 10:45 break
10:45 11:00 Irving Mueller An Effective Sequence Alignment Method for Crash Report Deduplication
11:00 11:15 Iman Kohyarnejad Anomaly Detection in Microservice Systems Using Tracing Data and Machine Learning
11:15 11:30 Quentin Fournier Improving Trace Analysis With System Call Arguments
11:30 12:00 Ciena Heap Monitor - hpm: Heap Profiler and Leak Analysis Solution
Start time End time Presenter Subject
9:30 10:00 Ericsson The new Trace Compass trace extension MVP edition
10:00 10:15 Erica Bugden Ergonomy of a new IDE frontend
10:15 10:30 Mohamma Nassiri, Abdellah Rahmani, Raphaël Croteau, Farzam Dorostkar, Yoann Heitz, Clément Guidi Presentation of the new research associates and students
10:30 12:00 Open discussion on the topic: breakout rooms

Room: Trace Compass / Theia
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/genevieve-2.bastien
Who: several members of the Trace Compass and Theia development team, and participants interested in questions, suggestions and discussions about these tools and trace viewing and analysis.

Room: LTTng, LTTng-UST, CTF, BabelTrace, BareCTF
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/abdellah.rahmani
Who: several members of the LTTng development team, and participants interested in questions, suggestions and discussions about these tools, system performance and the Linux kernel.

Room: GPU tracing and debugging
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/arnaud-2.fiorini
Who: several members of the ROCm plugin for Trace Compass and Theia GPU debugging interface development team, and participants interested in questions, suggestions and discussions about these tools, and GPU tracing, profiling and debugging.

Room: Containers and Cloud
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/pierre-frederick.denys
Who: Participants interested in questions, suggestions and discussions about tools to analyze Containers and Cloud Computing, including the instrumentation of Messaging Oriented Middleware such as ZeroMQ, and projects such as Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

Room: Runtime verification
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/gabriel.pollo-guilbert
Who: Participants interested in questions, suggestions and discussions about tools such as uftrace, asan and gdb, and dynamic instrumentation, memory debugging and other runtime verification tasks.

Room: Machine Learning
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/quentin.fournier
Who: Participants interested in questions, suggestions and discussions about Machine Learning for trace analysis and system diagnostics and classification.

Room: Visual communication (UX)
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/erica-2.bugden
Who: Stefan and Erica host a brief interactive discussion about core principles in high-performance visualisation. Practical and example-based

Room: Main room
Link: https://polymtl.webex.com/meet/michel.dagenais
Who: Participants with specific questions about the research project.