Submitted by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-25T21:55:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FACHINI_Elizeu_2016.pdf: 7355773 bytes, checksum: 57880fc3ade64c5d25c3ec2901d87e9b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-25T21:55:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FACHINI_Elizeu_2016.pdf: 7355773 bytes, checksum: 57880fc3ade64c5d25c3ec2901d87e9b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-25T21:56:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FACHINI_Elizeu_2016.pdf: 7355773 bytes, checksum: 57880fc3ade64c5d25c3ec2901d87e9b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-25T21:56:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FACHINI_Elizeu_2016.pdf: 7355773 bytes, checksum: 57880fc3ade64c5d25c3ec2901d87e9b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-24 / Não recebi financiamento / Monitoring is the act of collecting information concerning the characteristics and status of resources of interest. It can be used to the management and allocation of resources, detection and correction of failures and also to the evaluation of performance parameters. To automatically accomplish the monitoring a tool is needed that has functionalities related the acquiring, processing, distributing and presenting of monitoring events. In this work we are interested in a monitoring system to give support to the experimental execution of distributed algorithms, with the objective of correlating the device status with the execution data and, this way, make possible an analysis of cluster resources used by the application. Then, it’s needed a tool with particular characteristics, such as the ability to collect data with a small time period, with low intrusiveness and making the full data available. As was not possible find in the literature a tool with the features required, we developed a new monitoring tool named MSPlus. The features of this tool were evaluated through experiments with the isolated tool and comparing it with other tool. Additionally, we apply the tool in a distribucted system to monitor a distribucted algorithm. / O monitoramento é o ato de coletar informações referentes às características e estado dos recursos de interesse. Ele pode ser utilizado para gerência e alocação de recursos, detec- ção e correção de falhas e também para avaliação de parâmetros de desempenho. Para realizar o monitoramento de modo automático é necessário a utilização de ferramentas, que tem funcionalidades referentes a captação, processamento, distribuição e apresentação dos eventos de monitoramento. Neste trabalho temos interesse em um sistema de monitoramento para dar suporte à execução experimental de algoritmos distribuídos, com o objetivo de relacionar o estado dos dispositivos com os dados da execução e, desta forma, permitir uma análise do uso de recursos do aglomerado pela aplicação. É necessário então uma ferramenta com características particulares como fazer a coleta de informações com pequeno intervalo de tempo, com baixa intrusividade e realizar o armazenamento total dos dados. Como não foi possível encontrar na literatura uma ferramenta com as características desejadas, desenvolvemos uma nova ferramenta de monitoramento chamada MSPlus. As características dessa nova ferramenta foram analisadas através de experimentos de forma isolada e em comparação a outra ferramenta. Adicionalmente, aplicamos a ferramenta em um sistema distribuído monitorando um algoritmo distribuído.

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Orientadores: Luiz Eduardo Buzato, Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T20:16:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cicerre_FabioRodrigodeLima_D.pdf: 1417286 bytes, checksum: 642d37f1cb522ec4a356bbb4e9b55b96 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O conceito de grade surgiu com a necessidade crescente de se aproveitar recursos computacionais disponíveis em uma ou mais organizações para resolver problemas que exigem compartilhamento de dados e um grande poder de processamento. Uma grade computacional tem como objetivo principal permitir a execução distribuída e paralela de tarefas em recursos compartilhados. Uma grade é constituída de infra-estrutura física, composta de uma ou mais redes autônomas de computadores, e de um sistema de suporte (middleware), que provê serviços de gerenciamento de informações sobre os recursos da grade, controle de acesso e execução de tarefas sobre esse recursos e mecanismos de comunicação. Atualmente existem diversos sistemas que suportam a execução de tarefas independentes em uma grade computacional, mas poucos consideram a execução de processos de workflow, que permitem a definição de dependência explícita de dados e controle entre tarefas, o que impede um melhor aproveitamento de recursos, escalabilidade, desempenho de execução e recuperação automática de processos com manutenção de consistência. O sistema Xavantes, proposto e descrito nesse trabalho, procura suprir essas deficiências, tendo como principal objetivo suportar a execução distribuída de processos de workflow em máquinas heterogêneas, em uma ou mais organizações autônomas e dinâmicas, provendo um middleware que forneça uma melhor escalabilidade, desempenho e confiabilidade para a execução de aplicações em grades computacionais / Abstract: The grid concept has emerged from the increasing necessity of using available computational resources in one or more organizations in order to solve problems that require data sharing and large processing power. The main goal of a computational grid is to allow the distributed and parallel execution of tasks in shared resources. A grid is composed of a physical infra-structure, with one or more autonomous networks of computers, and a middleware, which provides services of information management about the grid resources, access control and tasks execution in these resources and communication mechanisms. Nowadays, there are some systems that support the execution of independent tasks in a computational grid, but only ones consider the execution of workflow processes, which allow the explicit definition of data and control dependencies among tasks, and this restricts a better use of available resources, scalability, execution performance, and automatic recovery of processes with the correct consistency maintenance. The Xavantes system, proposed and described in this work, is designed to reduce these deficiencies, having as its main goal the supports to the distributed execution of workflows in heterogeneous resources of one or more autonomous and dynamic organizations, providing a middleware that delivers a better scalability, performance and reliability to the application execution in grid computing / Doutorado / Sistemas Distribuídos e Redes de Computadores / Doutor em Ciência da Computação

Orientador: Hans Kurt Edmund Liesenberg / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T04:28:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NevesJunior_Carlos_M.pdf: 1230174 bytes, checksum: d583db28ad2a79922429fb1cc37e40ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O objetivo do presente trabalho é o desenvolvimento do Gerente de Distribuição do ambiente de execução Xchart. O ambiente Xchart, tal como definido na tecnologia de mesmo nome, a Tecnologia Xchart, é composto por um conjunto de ferramentas que apóiam o desenvolvimento de gerenciadores de diálogo de interfaces de usuário. A especificação destes gerenciadores de diálogo é modular e com semântica prevendo a execução concorrente de seus componentes, o que permitiria a distribuição de tais componentes por uma rede de computadores. Xchart também dá nome à linguagem visual empregada na especificação e captura do controle de diálogo destas interfaces, e o fato de Xchart ser uma variante de Statecharts permite que a linguagem seja utilizada em um domínio maior, o domínio de sistemas reativos distribuídos. O Gerente de Distribuição é o componente do sistema de execução de Xchart que fornece os recursos para a execução concorrente e distribuída destes sistemas reativos. O atual trabalho implementa este componente e o sistema de execução de Xchart com tecnologias disponíveis na plataforma Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). J2EE é uma especificação de plataforma para desenvolvimento de aplicações corporativas distribuídas que oferece uma série de recursos tais como serviço de nomes e diretório, sistema de entrega de mensagens e mecanismos para controle de concorrência como gerenciamento de transações atômicas. O emprego de J2EE no desenvolvimento do ambiente Xchart visa reduzir o esforço de implementação destas funcionalidades típicas de sistemas distribuídos, além de aproveitar outros benefícios da linguagem JavaTM como a independência de plataforma / Abstract: The aim of the current project is the development of the Distribution Manager of the Xchart runtime environment. The Xchart environment as defined by the Xchart technology is composed by a set of tools that supports the development of dialogue managers of user interfaces. The specification of these dialogue managers is modular and describes the concurrent execution of these components, which allows a potential distribution of these components over a computer network. Xchart is also the name of the visual language used to specify and capture the dialogue control of user interfaces, and since Xchart is a variant of Statecharts, it can be applied in a major domain: the domain of the distributed reactive systems. The Distribution Manager is the component of this Xchart runtime system that provides the resources for concurrent and distributed execution of these reactive systems. The current project implements this component and the Xchart runtime system using available technologies of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). J2EE is a specification of platform for development of distributed enterprise applications that offers a set of resources like naming and directory services, message service and a concurrency control mechanism based on atomic transaction management. Some of the benefits on using J2EE technology for the development of the Xchart environment are the reduction of the efforts typically required by the implementation of regular distributed systems algorithms and also the platform independence model provided by Java / Mestrado / Sistemas de Computação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

A Distributed Shared Memory(DSM) system consists of several computers that share a memory area and has no global clock. Therefore, an ordering of events in the system is necessary. Synchronization is a mechanism for coordinating activities between processes, which are program instantiations in a system.

This thesis presents the developed taxonomy of the agent-based distributed computing systems. Based on this taxonomy, a design, implementation, analysis and distribution protocol of a multi-agent architecture for internet-based distributed computing system was developed. A prototype of the designed architecture was implemented on Spider III using the IBM Aglets software development kit (ASDK 2.0) and the language Java.

Several technologies and languages exist for the development and implementation of distributed systems. Furthermore, several models for teaching computer programming and teaching programming in a distance-based educational environment exist. Limited literature, however, is available on models for teaching distributed computing in a distance-based educational environment. The focus of this study is to examine how distributed computing should be taught in a distance-based educational environment so as to ensure effective and quality learning for students. The required effectiveness and quality should be comparable to those for students exposed to laboratories, as commonly found in residential universities. This leads to an investigation of the factors that contribute to the success of teaching distributed computing and how these factors can be integrated into a distance-based teaching model. The study consisted of a literature study, followed by a comparative study of available tools to aid in the learning and teaching of distributed computing in a distance-based educational environment. A model to accomplish this teaching and learning is then proposed and implemented. The findings of the study highlight the requirements and challenges that a student of distributed computing in a distance-based educational environment faces and emphasises how the proposed model can address these challenges. This study employed qualitative research, as opposed to quantitative research, as qualitative research methods are designed to help researchers to understand people and the social and cultural contexts within which they live. The research methods employed are design research, since an artefact is created, and a case study, since “how” and “why” questions need to be answered. Data collection was done through a survey. Each method was evaluated via its own well-established evaluation methods, since evaluation is a crucial component of the research process. / Computing / M. Sc. (Computer Science)

This thesis investigates the application of autonomic management to a distributed storage system. Effects on performance and resource consumption were measured in experiments, which were carried out in a local area test-bed. The experiments were conducted with components of one specific distributed storage system, but seek to be applicable to a wide range of such systems, in particular those exposed to varying conditions. The perceived characteristics of distributed storage systems depend on their configuration parameters and on various dynamic conditions. For a given set of conditions, one specific configuration may be better than another with respect to measures such as resource consumption and performance. Here, configuration parameter values were set dynamically and the results compared with a static configuration. It was hypothesised that under non-changing conditions this would allow the system to converge on a configuration that was more suitable than any that could be set a priori. Furthermore, the system could react to a change in conditions by adopting a more appropriate configuration. Autonomic management was applied to the peer-to-peer (P2P) and data retrieval components of ASA, a distributed storage system. The effects were measured experimentally for various workload and churn patterns. The management policies and mechanisms were implemented using a generic autonomic management framework developed during this work. The motivation for both groups of experiments was to test management policies with the objective to avoid unsatisfactory situations with respect to resource consumption and performance. Such unsatisfactory situations occur when either the P2P layer or the data retrieval mechanism is configured statically. In a statically configured P2P system two unsatisfactory situations can be identified. The first arises when the frequency with which P2P node states are verified is low and membership churn is high. The P2P node state becomes inaccurate due to a high membership churn, leading to errors during the routing process and a reduction in performance. In this situation it is desirable to increase the frequency to increase P2P state accuracy. The converse situation arises when the frequency is high and churn is low. In this situation network resources are used unnecessarily, which may also reduce performance, making it desirable to decrease the frequency. In ASA’s data retrieval mechanism similar unsatisfactory situations can be identified with respect to the degree of concurrency (DOC). The DOC controls the eagerness with which multiple redundant replicas are retrieved. An unsatisfactory situation arises when the DOC is low and there is a large variation in the times taken to retrieve replicas. In this situation it is desirable to increase the DOC, because by retrieving more replicas in parallel a result can be returned to the user sooner. The converse situation arises when the DOC is high, there is little variation in retrieval time and there is a network bottleneck close to the requesting client. In this situation it is desirable to decrease the DOC, since the low variation removes any benefit in parallel retrieval, and the bottleneck means that decreasing parallelism reduces both bandwidth consumption and elapsed time for the user. The experimental evaluations of autonomic management show promising results, and suggest several future research topics. These include optimisations of the managed mechanisms, alternative management policies, different evaluation methods, and the application of developed management mechanisms to other facets of a distributed storage system. The findings of this thesis could be exploited in building other distributed storage systems that focus on harnessing storage on user workstations, since these are particularly likely to be exposed to varying, unpredictable conditions.

Several technologies and languages exist for the development and implementation of distributed systems. Furthermore, several models for teaching computer programming and teaching programming in a distance-based educational environment exist. Limited literature, however, is available on models for teaching distributed computing in a distance-based educational environment. The focus of this study is to examine how distributed computing should be taught in a distance-based educational environment so as to ensure effective and quality learning for students. The required effectiveness and quality should be comparable to those for students exposed to laboratories, as commonly found in residential universities. This leads to an investigation of the factors that contribute to the success of teaching distributed computing and how these factors can be integrated into a distance-based teaching model. The study consisted of a literature study, followed by a comparative study of available tools to aid in the learning and teaching of distributed computing in a distance-based educational environment. A model to accomplish this teaching and learning is then proposed and implemented. The findings of the study highlight the requirements and challenges that a student of distributed computing in a distance-based educational environment faces and emphasises how the proposed model can address these challenges. This study employed qualitative research, as opposed to quantitative research, as qualitative research methods are designed to help researchers to understand people and the social and cultural contexts within which they live. The research methods employed are design research, since an artefact is created, and a case study, since “how” and “why” questions need to be answered. Data collection was done through a survey. Each method was evaluated via its own well-established evaluation methods, since evaluation is a crucial component of the research process. / Computing / M. Sc. (Computer Science)

CNPq, CAPES / O presente trabalho inclui a revisão das normas de qualidade de energia elétrica, a fim de normatizar o desenvolvimento do projeto seguindo normas nacionais e internacionais; a simulação de algoritmos como CFA e FFT, a fim de verificar a viabilidade de seu uso, bem como as limitações associadas ao processamento de formas de onda fortemente distorcidas. Inclui também a proposição e a verificação de um algoritmo capaz de calcular os índices (selecionados durante a revisão das normas) que pudessem avaliar a qualidade de energia através de sinais de tensão e corrente. Para o desenvolvimento do protótipo, foram selecionados sensores de tensão e de corrente confiáveis para o sistema de aquisição; um DSP, que executa os algoritmos previamente simulados, processando em tempo real os sinais adquiridos pelos sensores, a fim de reportar o estado da rede elétrica e/ou eventos ocorridos na rede através de um módulo ZigBee, responsável pela transmissão desses dados de forma segura. A classe de eventos de variação de tensão de curta duração foi incluída no processamento em tempo real realizado pelo DSP. Devido à imprevisibilidade e à rapidez da ocorrência desses eventos, foi desenvolvida uma ferramenta capaz de gerar essa classe de eventos, o gerador de VTCD. A análise de QEE em tempo real se mostrou viável mesmo com a utilização de dispositivos de baixo custo, permitindo, ainda que com algumas limitações, o levantamento de informações de QEE às quais cargas conhecidas estavam submetidas. / The present document includes a comprehensive literature review on power quality issues, to keep the development of this project aligned with national and international standards related; simulation algorithms such as FFT and CFA in order to verify the feasibility of its use, as well as limitations associated with the processing of strongly distorted waveform. It also includes the proposal and verification of an algorithm able to calculate the indices (selected during the standards review) that could assess the power quality through voltage and current signals. For prototype development, voltage and current sensors were selected for reliable acquisition system; a DSP, which running the previously simulated algorithms in order to process in real time the acquired voltage and current signals provided by sensors in order to report the status of the mains grid and/or events occurrence on the network through a ZigBee module, responsible for safety transmission data. The short term voltage change events class was also included in the real time processing performed by the DSP. Due to the unpredictability and short duration of these events, it was developed a tool capable of generating this class of events, the STVC generator. The PQ analysis in real time was feasible even with the use of low cost devices, allowing, although with some limitations, the survey of PQ information which known loads was submitted.