Private:progress-hegazy

Sep 17-21

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.

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.

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.
- Ahmed will try to accomplish the tasks rolled over from this week.
- I will have conference call with Ali to explain to him the next steps.

Accomplished (this week)
- I registered the paper abstract in IPDPS.
- I ported the paper to LaTeX and worked on the abstract, introduction, related work and problem definition.
- Ahmed's code now works with most TCP clients and servers.
Issues
- We are running the experiments now (Friday night) and time is tight for the IPDPS submission.
Next Steps
- We will finish as much experiments as we can Friday and Saturday.
- I should have the paper (almost) ready Saturday night.