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Crash Data Collection and Analysis by anandeep on December 19, 2006 12:35PM

Archana Ganapathi is a Computer Science graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.

Archana has been working in the area of Empirical Computer Science (which relies on real data rather than theory or simulation) and some of her research is on computer crashes. She worked on collecting data on Windows crashes and is in general interested in the idea of using real data to advance Computer Science.

Here home page is http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~archanag/ . Her paper on Windows crashes is “Crash Data Collection: A Windows Case Study” and another interesting paper she has written is “Why do Internet services fail, and what can be done about it?  “

The Open Data Repository link referenced in the video is http://institutes.lanl.gov/data/.  This is a temporary link with a public data set as there is currently not an official link for the repository that will eventually be hosted by USENIX.  We'll be sure to pass along the official link as soon as it is available.

-Anandeep


Video: Crash Data Collection and Analysis

Attachment: http://port25.technet.com/videos/podcasts/archana.mp3
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  1. jigarmehtamscit said:

    Hello,

    Its a good topic.. I liked it.

    I have a question, archana, you told that the crash dump data will be completely anonymized and will be made open source for the researcher!

    I dont find any way you can anonymize the crash dump, I mean, using the crash dump, I can always back trace and come to know about something that people might not want to be revealed! So, hows this challenge handled before making it public?

    And any release details about this public access to the researcher?

    posted at 05:29AM 12/21/2006
  2. davidmeyer said:

    One of the things I wonder about is if there is room for Microsoft to work together with SPLUNK (http://www.splunk.com) and bring the benefits of a log search engine to the Windows world.  That in and of itself would go a long way toward helping us understand what causes crashes, etc.  I know it's not totally on-topic with the discussion, but it does go a long way to helping fix the problem over-all.

    posted at 05:23PM 01/03/2007
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