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Grades and Evaluation Online

Written on 15.10.21 by Christian Kaltenecker

Dear student,

We have entered the grades for the seminar 'Systems Benchmarking' in the LSF.

Moreover, we have also uploaded the evaluation results for this seminar on the CMS.
Thank you again for participating and providing feedback!

Submission deadline 4 hours earlier

Written on 20.09.21 by Christian Kaltenecker

Due to maintenance issues, the CMS will be down at the day of submission beginning from 8 PM.
Therefore, the final submission deadline is moved to 30.09.2021 at 7:59 PM.

Schedule for Presentations is online!

Written on 10.05.21 by Christian Kaltenecker

We will have five sessions for presentations from mid of June until mid of July 2021. Please have a look at the materials regarding the schedule for your presentations and see when your presentation is scheduled.
Please also consider that you have to submit a draft of your presentation including your experiment idea on Thursday (13.05.2021) and the final version of your presentation after your talk.
Please make sure that your presentation will last about 20 minutes. After the presentation, there will be about 10 minutes of discussion.

Attendance is mandatory for all participants for all presentations (i.e., for all sessions)!

After your submission on Thursday, you will receive feedback to your slides and experiment idea from your advisor. We recommend to arrange a meeting with your advisor.

The final version of your slides also has to be submitted after your presentation has taken place -- the version of the slides you will have used in your presentation. There is a separate entry for the submission of the final slides in the CMS (make sure to upload them to the correct session).

Please try to acquire a webcam for your presentation, so we can be sure that you are presenting in person.

The link to the Zoom meeting is the following:
https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/93971649446?pwd=bUZ5TE82cnNTREZpNDJoUVNHOFZ1QT09

Meeting-ID: 939 7164 9446
Passphrase: 986067

Also, don't forget the talk by Samuel Kounev!

In case of questions, please contact your advisor.

Talk by Samuel Kounev

Written on 30.04.21 by Christian Kaltenecker

The talk by Samuel Kounev will take place on Thursday, 20.05.2021 at 03:00 PM on Zoom:
https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/92788640821?pwd=YXY2TG1WUjhTOVoxNE9CSHhwcXNCdz09

Meeting ID: 927 8864 0821
Passcode: 233207

Recording of Flo's talk

Written on 23.04.21 by Christian Kaltenecker

We decided to share the recording of Flo's talk with you. This way, you have the opportunity to rewatch it later when preparing your experiment.
https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/rec/share/J2AX26SAlU4jCpzBVKLkJwjRE73BxVAS35DYHwJ2VncK0VXjZ2Rn89siFpp12mHM.zv1xTLvktRKQeLUJ
Passcode:… Read more

Furthermore, all issues regarding the LSF are fixed by now. Everyone should be able to register for the seminar.

Introductory Talk will be recorded

Written on 22.04.21 (last change on 23.04.21) by Christian Kaltenecker

I am writing to you regarding the next session today starting from 12:15 PM.

Please note that the following session will be recorded. Please contact me if you don't consent with the recording of the presentation.
~~This recording will not be pusblished.~~

Introductory Talk (22.04.2021 at 12:15 PM)

Written on 19.04.21 (last change on 22.04.21) by Christian Kaltenecker

As announced last week, the introductory talk by Florian Sattler will take place on Thursday at 12:15 PM.
If not already done so, please apply for our cluster resources by signing and uploading the application form on the CMS.
The talk on Thursday is a good opportunity to ask questions regarding our… Read more

Please use the following link to join the Zoom meeting:
https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/93409900105?pwd=blhUNTFXNEJUOTZTMFFYYVF4c2cyQT09

Meeting ID: 934 0990 0105
Passcode: 994896

Please also don't forget to register in the LSF.

LSF + Application Form

Written on 15.04.21 by Christian Kaltenecker

Here the promised information:
The registration in the LSF will be enabled on Monday (19.04.2021) at the latest until 06.05.2021. So please stay tuned.

You are allowed to sign the application form individually as long as you use some form of handwritten signature (e.g., by using the mouse). Please… Read more

Here the promised information:
The registration in the LSF will be enabled on Monday (19.04.2021) at the latest until 06.05.2021. So please stay tuned.

You are allowed to sign the application form individually as long as you use some form of handwritten signature (e.g., by using the mouse). Please do not type in your name by using only the keyboard. We will not acknowledge that as a signature.

For further questions, do not hesitate to contact me.

Kick-Off Meeting tomorrow

Written on 14.04.21 by Christian Kaltenecker

Thank you for giving us your favorite topic list.

Tomorrow, 15.04.2021 at 12:15 PM, the kick-off meeting will take place on Zoom.
You can join either by the given link or by providing the meeting ID and the password:
… Read more

Thank you for giving us your favorite topic list.

Tomorrow, 15.04.2021 at 12:15 PM, the kick-off meeting will take place on Zoom.
You can join either by the given link or by providing the meeting ID and the password:
https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/93907146439?pwd=K3NrYTlMZTdFVGc3OFNQSlAwNVhSQT09

Meeting-ID: 939 0714 6439
Password: 357232

Please note the following:
If you do not want to by processed by Zoom servers, use a VPN to hide your IP address and choose a different name in Zoom.
In the case of using a pseudonym, please let me know so that we can check your presence.

Attendance is mandatory. If you have questions, please contact me.

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About the Seminar

Performance is a critical aspect of software in many domains, such as high-performance computing or embedded systems, where resources are limited. When it comes to assessing the performance of software systems, performance engineers face a multitude of problems to solve, some of which are:

How should we configure the software system to be performance-optimal (compile-time vs. run-time arguments)?
How should we analyze the software system to understand and predict performance behavior (white-box vs. black-box)?
How often should performance measurements be run (e.g., with every commit or before a new release)?
How should we benchmark software systems (hardware, workloads, etc.)?

In this seminar, we address and discuss possible solutions and trade-offs, theoretically, by addressing the state of the art in research and, practically, by planing, preparing, and performing our own performance experiments

Registration

Registration for the seminar is mandatory. To distribute students among the available seminars offered by the computer science department, you have to select your preferences for a seminar or a proseminar on the central registration platform for seminars and will be automatically assigned to a seminar according to your preferences.

If you are assigned to this seminar, for organizational reasons, you have to sign up both in the course registration form that will be given above and in the LSF (seminar, proseminar). Deadlines for the LSF (HISPOS) registration will be posted in the LSF (HISPOS) portal. Registration is possible up to three weeks after the topic assignment / kick-off.

Due to the current situation with SARS-CoV-2, this course will be held online. The topic assignment will take place on Thursday, 15.04.2021, 12:15 PM. Further information will be provided via e-mail after the registration.

Literature

Kounev, Samuel and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and von Kistowski, Jóakim. Systems Benchmarking - For Scientists and Engineers. Springer, 2020.