Thursday 15th - 22nd August

I got an email from Xinfeng asking me about my progress. He also suggested that I should summarize each paper that I read to make my final report easier. Xinfeng’s advice is very helpful. Although I have taken some notes, I have not summarized anything yet.

Thursday 29th August

This month I focused mostly on the academic side of the project, including reading papers related to distributed systems and monitoring distributed systems and summarizing those papers to help with my final report. The paper that I just finished reading is ‘Monitoring Distributed Systems’ by Jeffrey Joyce, Greg Lomow, Konrad Slind and Brian Unger. This paper discusses the difficulties that make a distributed systems harder to monitor than a sequential system and general problems associated with monitoring. It introduces three approaches to the display of process interactions – textual traces, animated graphical traces and a combination of aspects of the textual and graphical approaches. It presents the architecture of a general purpose, extensible, distributed monitoring system – Jipc system.

 

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