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    Design and modeling of a non-blocking checkpointing system

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    Making the case for reforming the I/O software stack of extreme-scale systems

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    This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant TIN2010-16497 “Input/Output techniques for distributed and high-performance computing environments”. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 328582

    Engenharia de ResiliĂȘncia

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    This thesis presents a study of a new discipline called Chaos Engineering and its approaches, that help to verify the correct behavior of a system and to discover new information about it, through chaos experiments like the shutdown of a machine or the simulation of latency in the network connections between applications. The case study was carried out at the company Mindera, to verify and improve the resilience to failures of a client’s project. Initially the chaos maturity of the project within the Chaos Maturity Model wasin the first levels and it was necessary to increase its sophistication and adoption by conducting experiments to test and improve the resilience. The cloud environment that the project uses, and the architecture is explained to contextualize the components that the experiments will use and test. Different alternatives to test disaster recovery plans are compared as well as the differences between the use of a test environment and the production environment. The value of carrying out experiments for the client project is described, as well as the identification of their value proposal. In the end, the analysis of the different chaos tools is performed using the TOPSIS method. The four performed experiments test the system's resilience to failure of a database’s primary node, the impact of latency in the network connections between different components, the system's reaction to the exhaustion of physical resources of a machine and finally the global test of a system's resiliency in the face of a server failure. After the execution, the experiences were evaluated by company experts. In the end, the conclusions about the work developed are presented. The experiments carried out were classified as important for the project. A problem was found after in the latency introduction experiment and after changing the application’s code, the system reaction was positive, and the number of responses was increased.Esta tese apresenta um estudo de uma nova disciplina chamada Chaos Engineering e as suas abordagens, que ajudam a verificar o correto funcionamento e a descoberta de novas informaçÔes acerca de um sistema atravĂ©s de realização de experiĂȘncias como o desligar de uma mĂĄquina ou a simulação de latĂȘncia nas ligaçÔes de rede entre aplicaçÔes. O caso de estudo foi realizado na empresa Mindera, dentro de um projeto cliente, para verificar e melhorar a sua resiliĂȘncia a falhas. Inicialmente a maturidade de caos do projeto dentro do Chaos Maturity Model encontra-se nos primeiros nĂ­veis e tornou-se necessĂĄrio aumentar a sua sofisticação e adoção atravĂ©s da realização de experiĂȘncias para testar e melhorar a resiliĂȘncia. O ambiente de cloud que o projeto usa e a sua arquitetura Ă© explicada para contextualizar os componentes que as experiĂȘncias vĂŁo usar e testar. As diferentes alternativas de testar planos de recuperação a desastres sĂŁo comparadas, assim como, as diferenças entre a utilização do ambiente de testes e de produção. O valor da realização de experiĂȘncias para o projeto cliente Ă© descrito, assim como a identificação da sua proposta de valor. No final, a anĂĄlise das diferentes ferramentas de caos Ă© realizada recorrendo ao mĂ©todo TOPSIS. As quatro experiĂȘncias executadas testam a resiliĂȘncia do sistema perante a falha de um nĂł primĂĄrio de uma base de dados, o impacto da latĂȘncia nas ligaçÔes de rede entre diferentes componentes, a reação do sistema perante a exaustĂŁo de recursos fĂ­sicos de uma mĂĄquina e por Ășltimo o teste global da resiliĂȘncia de um sistema perante a falha de um servidor. As experiĂȘncias sĂŁo posteriormente avaliadas por experts da empresa. No final, as conclusĂ”es acerca do trabalho desenvolvido sĂŁo apresentadas. As experiĂȘncias realizadas foram classificadas como importantes para o projeto. Um problema foi encontrado na experiĂȘncia de introdução de latĂȘncia e apĂłs a alteração do seu cĂłdigo, a reação do sistema foi positiva e o nĂșmero de respostas aumentou

    Pitt Momentum Fund 2020 Overview

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    In the 2019–2020 academic year, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Ann E. Cudd and Senior Vice Chancellor for Research (SVCR) Rob A. Rutenbar have collaborated to enhance and streamline internal funding opportunities for faculty research while continuing to support high-quality research, scholarship, and creative endeavors. The result is a jointly funded large-scale research development fund—the Pitt Momentum Funds—which restructures the University’s suite of internal funding programs (Central Research Development Fund, Social Science Research Initiative, and Special initiative to Promote Scholarly Activities in the Humanities) and adds a new SVCR/Provost Fund to provide allocations for research seeding, teaming, and scaling grants. The new 920,000annualfundingmodelprovideslarge−scale,transformativescholarshipsupportforinterdisciplinaryteamsoffacultyfromatleastthreeschoolswithtwonewone−yearplanning(or“teaming”)grantsof920,000 annual funding model provides large-scale, transformative scholarship support for interdisciplinary teams of faculty from at least three schools with two new one-year planning (or “teaming”) grants of 60,000, and two new two-year scaling grants at 400,000.Thisnewsuiteoffunds—whichisnewfundinganddoesnotreduceoverallfunding—willhelpadvancePitt’sgoaltoengageinresearchofimpact.Thenewstructureforawardsincludesthreetiers:SeedingGrants—one−yeartermwithanawardcapof400,000. This new suite of funds—which is new funding and does not reduce overall funding—will help advance Pitt’s goal to engage in research of impact. The new structure for awards includes three tiers: Seeding Grants—one-year term with an award cap of 16,000 plus (2,000 supplements are available for specific cases); awards are made in four tracks: STEM Health & Life Science Arts & Humanities Social Sciences, which includes business, policy, law, education, and social work Preventing Sexual Misconduct** (All faculty, including School of Medicine, are eligible to apply to this track) Seeding grants support significant and innovative scholarship by individual or groups of faculty at all ranks at the University of Pittsburgh, with a particular focus on early career faculty and areas where external funding is extremely limited. Teaming Grants—one-year term with an award cap of 60,000. Teaming grants support the formation of new multi-disciplinary collaborations to successfully pursue large-scale external funding. Scaling Grants—two-year term with an award cap of $400,000. Scaling grants enable multi-disciplinary teams to competitively scale their research efforts in targeted pursuit of large-scale external funding. More information on eligibility, application processes, evaluation criteria, exclusions, and participation requirements is available through Pitt’s Office of Sponsored Programs. The application can be accessed at the Competition Space
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