Team epZilla

Chatura Randika, Harshana Martin, Dishan Metihakwala, Rajeev Sampath

epZilla Final Presentation and Demo

The final Project presentation of project epzilla was done on the 23rd June 2010. The final demonstration was done on the 24th of June 2010. With the successful completion of the presentation and demo, the research and development components of the project came to a conclusion. The completion of the documentation, which includes user manuals, final report and four separate research papers still has to be done.

epZilla Latest

Team epZilla successfully complete the 3rd formal evaluation of the project work. Currently project epZilla is going in a rapid speed with the development of major components.

Project epZilla Progress Update

Now we have started the implementation of the components of our proposed architecture. Dispatcher, Leader Election, Accumulator, Node implementations as well as STM implementation for all the above components are being developed by four of us. We wish to completed 70% of the implementation by 10th March 2010.

Currently over 80% is completed in each and every component of the project including Dispatcher, Leader Election, Accumulator and STM for them. So now it is about the System Integration and Testing. We are planning to start testing on individual components by Monday 8th March and integrate the System and conduct testing on the integrated components on 9th and complete the rest of the work by 10th March.

We have our 3rd formal evaluation and Demo on 11th and 12th March 2010. We are planning to face it strongly and succeed.

Project epZilla Web site launched

Since we have completed the implementation of our projects web site on September, we could not able to work on it lately. However with a small free time period which we got, we have launched our web site at http://www.epzilla.net. We are planning to keep it up to date as much as possible. Please feel free to have a look at it make a comment. We highly value your comments.

Into the simulation phase

Though we haven't yet finalized the proposed architecture, we are about to start some coding for simulation phase in parallel with the research so that we can have everything ready for simulation as soon as we finalize the architecture.

During past few weeks we were doing research on distributed system modeling languages and frameworks which we can use for our simulation phase. One such language is ProMeLa - a low level language which doesn't seem to provide enough 'simulation' (as opposed to modeling) capabilities as we expected. Meanwhile a group member found a framework named Monarc 2, which is written completely in Java and used mostly in the context of scientific simulations. Though the context was different, it seemed as it can be used for our purposes as well since it contained many of the core components we were looking for. So few of our group members are going to continue experimenting with it in the next few weeks while the others are continuing to finalize the architecture.

Latest News on epZilla

Yesterday epZilla team successfully finished the Architectural Analysis Document which is basically research of available existing solutions. And the team started working on the first phase of the project. Which is to develop simulation program analyze the suitability of distributed complex event processing architecture.