Projects

The project should be carried out individually but preferably in a group of two students. Each students should have complete knowledge of the system and be able to do the necessary experiments. The written presentations are done individually.

We might have more than one group assigned to a project. In that case the two groups will work independently.

When you have a good understanding of the goal of your own project, how to design a solution and which tools to use, you will give a presentation to students of other groups. You will also listen to their descriptions thus learning more about problems that you will face when implementing a distributed system.

A large part of you project will consist of performing performance studies, experiments that will help you in your design decisions. You will during the course have meetings with other students where you can present your findings and which decisions you have taken.

Towards the end of the project you should have compiled evaluations that convincingly show that you have met the goals of the project.

Projects

• Quota-based Scheduling for YARN
  • Davis Jaunzems
• True Snapshots for HDFS with BtrFS
  • Eren Yağdıran
• Egier a Geo Replicated System
  • Chathuri Gunawardhana
• Partition centric Iterations in Apache Flink
  • Nikola Koevski and Duc Kien Truong
• Performance Interference Characterization of Big Data Workloads
  • Muhammad Ali Orakzai and Zainab Abbas
• Apache-Flink vs Apache-Spark on public clouds
  • Ashansa Perera and Shelan Perera

Presentation

You will have several presentations during the course were you present the state of your work.

• November 5'th, - first presentation, objective of the project, expected outcome, limitations and approach that you will take. 15-20 min
• November 23 and 26'th  - tools and techniques. This could be a description of the system that you're working with or systems that you use to, for example, do performance measurements, building or deployment.
• December 15'th and 17'th - "final" presentation; but you might still have tests that you have not had time to do, these should be presented with an explanation of what they will answer.

Report

Papers should be handed in by mail no later than January 16'th.