[Colloquium] Reminder: Wang/MS Presentation/Nov 8, 2017

[Margaret Jaffey via Colloquium]

This is a reminder about Shu Wang's MS Presentation tomorrow.

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Date:  Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Time:  12:00 PM

Place:  Ryerson 255

M.S. Candidate:  Shu Wang

M.S. Paper Title: Understanding and Auto-Adjusting Performance-Related
Configurations

Abstract:
Modern software systems are often equipped with hundreds to thousands
of configuration options, many of which greatly affect performance.
Unfortunately, properly setting these configurations is challenging
for developers due to the complex and dynamic nature of system
workload and environment. In this paper, we first conduct an empirical
study to understand performance-related configurations and the
challenges of setting them in the real-world. Guided by our study, we
design a systematic and general control-theoretic framework,
SmartConf, to automatically set and dynamically adjust
performance-related configurations to meet required operating
constraints while optimizing other performance metrics. Evaluation
shows that SmartConf is effective in solving real-world configuration
problems, often providing better performance than even the best static
configuration developers can choose under existing configuration
systems.

Shu's advisor is Prof. Shan Lu

Login to the Computer Science Department website for details:
 https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/phd/ms_announcements#shuwang

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