CASCON 2005
This coming week is the week of the CASCON 2005 Conference in Markham, Ontario. It’s going to be held at the Sheraton Parkway Hotel (yes that hotel that we 2004 Extreme Bluers stayed at)!
I’ll be presenting a workshop on Tuesday October 18, 2005 on The Engineering of Autonomic Systems. This workshop is comprised of several 30 minute talks. I will be specifically talking about “Using and Extending the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) for Data Collection in Self-Healing Systems”. The abstract for this presentation reads:
This presentation describes how to use and extend the logging and monitoring tooling in the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) for data collection in self-healing systems. TPTP is used to generate, collect and consolidate log, trace, statistical data from distributed applications necessary for self-healing systems. The presentation begins by exploring the motivation and history of the TPTP project. Next, an explanation of TPTP’s architecture will be provided with focus on the project’s extensibility and data collection components. Finally, a demonstration will illustrate the collection of log and statistical data from a sample distributed two-tier application in real-time.
During the workshop, we’ll be doing a demonstration of the current commercial release of the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT).
So what is CASCON all about?
CASCON 2005, the 15th annual international conference hosted by the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies, is the premiere computer science and software engineering conference in Canada. CASCON is an excellent venue for exchanging ideas, showcasing results, experiences and tools, and networking with researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. The Meeting of Minds, as CASCON is otherwise known, is an opportunity to present, discuss, and learn.
CASCON 2005 comprises keynote presentations, technical paper tracks, Frontiers of Software Practice track, challenging workshops, Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards, and a Technology Showcase, which is a key attraction of the conference. CASCON always aims to innovate. As well, the proceedings from CASCON 2005, as most of those from past CASCONs, will be included in the ACM Digital Library, a “window into the world’s core computing literature.” We invite you to participate in CASCON 2005 to help us build an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in these ever expanding and critical fields of software and computing.
Last year, I held a technology showcase called Symbiosis. This project ultimately fueled the development of what is now known as the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT). From the CASCON 2004 archives, the following is the abstract for the Symbiosis project:
Symbiosis is research project aimed at creating a collection infrastructure for sharing data between run-time monitoring systems and developer run-time analysis tools. The intent of this project is to provide a problem determination tool that helps to complete the software life cycle by bridging the gap between the developer, the tester, and the system administrator in any typical software development organization.
If your in town, and if your registered ;), come check it out!
