Improving Probe Usability

During our research for characterizing individual computing nodes using Software Probes, one of the remaining issues for quickly probing them was that of the checkpoints' sizes. This article shows the different approaches we used in order to reduce the Probes' sizes. We demonstrate that in some cases it is possible to reduce the set of Probes of an application up to 95% of its original size, thus making our approach for machine characterization useful even through slow networks such as the Internet