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Candidate: Ruidan Li</div>
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Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023</div>
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Time: 10 am CST</div>
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Location: JCL 298</div>
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Remote Location: <a href="https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/98464427616?pwd=b0I2ZENuemN0UEFGcnNpVUNzMXVXZz09&from=addon" id="OWA60bf55a6-487d-2d3c-2d6b-3228ad5e3864" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/98464427616?pwd=b0I2ZENuemN0UEFGcnNpVUNzMXVXZz09&from=addon</a></div>
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M.S. Paper Title: FREP: Fleet Performance Evaluation Pipeline for Identifying Server Degradation in Large-Scale Datacenters</div>
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Abstract: Stable and predictable performance of fleet servers is critical for providing reliable services. To identify and remove underperforming servers, performance data must be recorded and then systematically analyzed at scale. In this thesis, we report
on our methodology for collecting and analyzing performance data at CompanyX for the purposes of identifying and removing underperforming datacenter servers. We present (and will release), to the best of our knowledge, the largest dataset on CPU and memory
benchmarks. We show how off-the-shelf statistical techniques must be customized for the nature of our dataset, resulting in a custom pipeline, FREP, that leverages a wide range of statistical techniques. FREP comprises a variety of modules that detect variances,
divergences, and outliers, and has provided various types of important recommendations to CompanyX operators and helped improve their understanding of their fleet behaviors.</div>
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Advisors: Haryadi Gunawi</div>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Committee Members: Haryadi Gunawi, Hank Hoffmann, and <span style="letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px" class="ContentPasted0">Marty Humphrey</span></span><br>
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