Windows Server Failure Data Needed

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Windows Server Failure Data Needed Archana
Ganapathi and David Patterson http//roc.cs.berkel
ey.edu
Motivation

• For the good of humanity..
• Concrete Data Research Opportunities
• Determine cause of every crash in Windows Servers
• Document crash likelihood of SW/HW components
• Explain failure trends
• Build oracle for system behavior
• Foundation of future J.D. Power, Assoc. Quality
  Rating of Computing?!

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http//www.microsoft.com/resources/satech/cer/ No
t a research hackits an official tool run on
many different sites!
What we can extract (courtesy of Brendan Murphy,
Microsoft Research)

• Time from reboot (plus absolute time)
• OS version, product type, CPU type and speed,
  hardware manufacturer.
• What is running on the system at time of crash
  (provides usage profile)

• What happened prior to/after crash.
• HW/driver/SW that caused crash
• Versions of HW/SW/drivers running on system
• Rate people update their system
• Distribution over time of known/unknown failures

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