[Planetlab-users] Re: New debugging tool (fixed project website link)

[Dennis Geels]

Hello again, and sorry for bothering all of you again.

It has been pointed out that I provided a broken (double-escaped) URL
in my original email.  Please go to
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~galtekar/debugging/ if you would like more
information about the Friday project.

Thank you.

On 1/1/07, Dennis Geels <geels at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Happy New Year, fellow PlanetLab users
>
>   We are very proud to announce Friday, a new debugging tool for distributed
> applications.  Friday helps find distributed and non-deterministic bugs in
> your C/C++ programs by recording execution and replaying the traces in a
> global predicate evaluation engine.  More information, including links to
> our publications, is the project website.
>
>   Tomorrow, as 2007 begins, so we begin a new Friday trial program.  We are
> looking for volunteers from the PlanetLab community of distributed system
> builders to try our tools on their applications.  If you have a running
> prototype that is not yet 100% bug-free, please contact us, and we will help
> you get started with Friday and show you how to use the replay and predicate
> evaluation engines.  We are specifically looking for distributed systems
> with distributed and non-deterministic bugs, because that's what we designed
> Friday to address.  You will get support on a powerful new debugging tool
> and a better prototype, and we will learn how well Friday works for a wider
> variety of applications as well as what still needs work.
>   We do not have unlimited support resources, so we will choose only the
> first few groups who respond with suitable applications.  If you need extra
> incentive to reply promptly, keep in mind that the SIGCOMM deadline is at
> the end of January, and we may be able to help fix your bugs in time to run
> your experiments.
>
> Dennis and the Friday team
>
>