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A Case for an Open Source Data Repository Archana Ganapathi Department of EECS, UC Berkeley (archanag@) Why do we study failure data? Understand cause-effect relationship between configurations and system behavior Still don’t have a complete understanding of failures in systems Can’t worry about fixing problems if we don’t understand them in the first place Gauge behavioral changes over time Need realistic workload/faultload data to test/evaluate systems Success stories…people have benefited from failure data analysis Crash data collection success stories Berkeley EECS BOINC 2 Unnamed Compa