Private:progress-hegazy

Sep 17-21

PCIe Project

• Accomplished (this week)
  • Ahmed bought and successfully installed the Infiniband cards.
  • Benchmark experiments were run for Infiniband.
• Issues
  • Ahmed's implementation of SDP doesn't support asynchronous calls.
  • Ahmed couldn't run PCIe and Infiniband experiments from the same machine (library conflict between his SDP and Infiniband SDP)
  • Time is tight for the IPDPS submission.
• Next Steps
• Ahmed will implement asynchronous call support in order to run his application-based evaluation and compare it to Infiniband.
• I will register the paper's abstract to IPDPS over the weekend (deadline is Monday, Sept 24th).
• Although the time is tight, Ahmed will try to finish his asynchronous calls support and the application-based evaluation by the end of next week. This gives us a couple of days to polish up the paper.

HPC Storage

• Accomplished (this week)
  • Abdullah tried to obtain HPC I/O logs off of the internet. When that was not possible, he tried a couple of benchmarks to to generate some I/O logs as a placeholder until we obtain logs from real HPC applications.
  • During our meeting, we tried to analyze the data, e.g., to verify the Markov chain order using partial autocorrelation functions. I noticed the data was so fine-grained (time in nanoseconds and block size in KB).
• Issues
  • None
• Next Steps
  • Abdullah to work on the coarser representation of the log (e.g., 1 second and MBs).
  • I will go into one more level of details for the general methodology.

Industrial Automation as a Service

• Accomplished (this week)
  • I have come up with the delay compensation results and updated the working document.
  • I have met with Ahmed AbdelSadek and explained the problem and experiments to him.
  • Ali finished his first experiment, which is nothing other than making sure Modbus is working fine for him on LabVIEW.
• Issues
  • Ahmed had was supposed to finish his first task by the end of the week, but he was "discussing some issues with Dr. Mohamed regarding [his] research".
  • Communication rate with Ali is a bit slow.
• Next Steps
  • I may have to work on the delay experiments myself until Ahmed is up to speed.
  • I will have conference call with Ali to explain to him the next steps.