| Carl Friedrich Gauß Faculty | Department of Computer Science

Institute of Operating Systems
and Computer Networks

Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Maintaining research software over decades

Semester

Winter 2020/2021

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Module #

INF-VS-041

Programmes

Bachelor Informatik, Bachelor Informations-Systemtechnik, Bachelor Wirtschaftsinformatik

IBR Group

DS (Prof. Kapitza)

Type

Seminar

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza
Abteilungsleiter
rrkapitz[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
+49 531 3913294
Room 135

Assistants

Ines Messadi
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
messadi[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
+49 531 3913295
Room 117

Mohammad Mahhouk
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
mahhouk[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
+49 531 3913245
Room 133

Credits

Hours

0+2

Time & Place

Kick-Off Meeting: Montag, 26.10, 9:45 Uhr
The seminar wil happen entirely online: https://bbb.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/b/ine-2a7-pg3

Certificates

Submission of an substantial essay and successful presentation. The grade is determined by the activity in the seminar as well as the quality of essay and presentation.

Registration

The number of participants is limited to 10 students.

The registration is only possible via StudIP.

Content

Software developed for research often suffers from a number of common problems that make it difficult to run or even extend. In most cases, the software comes with instabilities and bugs and cannot be disseminated to the following generations of researchers. In this seminar, we will look at techniques that permit us to maintain the software and disseminate research to scientists' next generation. The topics include:

Reproducibility of computational results
Virtualization, deployment and orchestration
Archival of research code and data
Maintaining distributed complex protocol implementation

This course will be a supported by supervisors from other institutes from TU Braunschweig and will be part of the Suresoft project.

The following is a preliminary list of topics. The papers might be extended or changed.

Seminar Topics

	Basics for maintaining research software
	Continuous integration and testing (supervised by: Harikrishnan K. Sreekumar) Virtualization: VMs, containers and WebAssembly Research data repositories (e.g., RADAR and Zenodo)
	Examples for reproducibility and automated testing
	Xen and the Art of Repeated Research (supervised by: Mohammad Mahhouk) Twins: White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing and other ways to test BFT protocols (supervised by: Ines Messadi)
	Approaches towards long-term archival, sustainable software and reproducibility
	Conquaire Continuous quality control for research data to ensure reproducibility (supervised by: Björn Friebel) SARA – Software Archiving of Research Artefacts (supervised by: Sören Peters) Software Heritage: Why and How to Preserve Software Source Code Reproducible Computational Workflows with Continuous Analysis (supervised by: Mario Wolter)

Material

The material is only available to registered attendees. In order to register, you need either an IBR account or a self-activated IBR-y-account. Afterwards you can login to this site (with the function at the top of this page).

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Chapter

Slides

Exercises

1. Kick-off

2. Deadlines

3. Reproducibility with Continuous Analysis

4. Xen and the Art of Repeated Research

5. SARA, Software Achiving of Research Artefact

6. Twins: White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing

Schedule

Date	Description
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26.10.2020, 09:45	Kick-off Meeting (BBB)
08.12.2020, 11:30	Presentation Topic 1 "Reproducibility with Continuous Analysis" (BBB)
15.12.2020, 11:30	Presentation Topic 2 "Xen and the Art of Repeated Research" (BBB)
12.01.2021, 11:30	Presentation Topic 3 "SARA --Software Archiving of Research Artefacts" (BBB)
19.01.2021, 11:30	Presentation Topic 4 "Twins --White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing" (BBB)

References

Review Template Download

On World-Wide-Web, there are different ways to enhance your seminar presentations:

How to Read a Paper, S. Keshav, University of Waterloo
How to Give a Talk, Paul N. Edwards, School of Information, University of Michigan
How to Give a Good Presentation

For the literature review these links might be helpful:

(La)TeX Tips + Tricks

The Seminar

The preferred language for talk and essay is english. Each participant will take one or more papers under a specific topic. Participants are responsible for a peer review, including:

Attend peer's presentation dry run and give feedback.
Review peer's essay before submission.
Collect questions to peer's presentation during discussion session.

Notes

Please submit the essay as well as your presentation slides. The requirements for presentation and essay are listed as follows:

Presentation and essay preferably in English.
Presentation time about 20 minutes.
Essay should comprise exact 6 pages without references.

Each participant is supposed to do further research based on the paper. The supervisors are always glad to help in this case.

The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this seminar, essays must be done in your own words. Plagiarism is an offense against the examination regulations.

Templates

The LaTeX template for seminar essay can be found here.

Additional considerations for the design of the essay can be found on the website of IBR.

LaTeX templates for presentation slides can be found here.

Additional considerations for the design can be found on the website of IBR.

last changed 2021-01-13, 12:21 by Ines Messadi