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+\begin{center}
+	\bfseries\Huge Abstract
+\end{center}
+In the modern AI economy, the strong computational demand causes datacenters to become complex, diverse facilities.
+According to the Jevon's Paradox of Computer Systems, future warehouses are at an even higher risk of becoming unmanageable, due to the sheer volume of CPUs, GPUs, NPUs \etc necessary to satisfy the customers' needs.
+To address this problem, the scientific community has proposed digital twinning as a datacenter management tool.
+Digital Twins, which mirror complex objects and processes, provide a novel way to tackle the rising warehouse complexity.
+However, datacenter digital twins are still under development, and lack crucial features, such as predictive analytics, mandatory for system administrators to make well-informed operational decisions.
+
+In this work, we propose to enable predictive analytics for datacenters using digital twinning.
+We survey the datacenter digital twinning field, and organize our findings into a system model.
+Additionally, we design \mysystem~-- a novel reference architecture for predictive datacenter digital twins, and evaluate it through prototype-based experiments.
+Our results indicate \mysystem is capable of reliably differentiating between mild and severe compute failures, and can successfully incorporate a predictive analytics engine to the benefit of datacenter managers.
 
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diff --git a/content/preamble/acknowledgement.tex b/content/preamble/acknowledgement.tex
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+\begin{center}
+	\bfseries \Huge Acknowledgements
+\end{center}
+I wish to express my thanks to the many people who have helped me in preparation of this thesis.
 
+Dante Niewehuis, my daily supervisor, with patience and understanding mentored me during our collaboration, which led to the timely and successful completion of this thesis.
 
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+Alexandru Iosup, my 1\textsuperscript{st} supervisor, provided invaluable feedback and suggestions that helped immensely during writing.
 
+Jesse Donkervliet guided the thesis timeline and greatly assisted in preparation of the final defence during the weekly thesis meetings.
 
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+Daniel Halasz provided many insightful comments which shaped the technical contributions.
 
+Daniele Bonetta, Matthijs Jansen, Tiziano De Matteis, Radu Nicolae, Jure Antunovi\'c, Sacheendra Talluri, and Krijn Doekemeijer of AtLarge Research provided indispensable knowledge on conducting good Computer Systems research over the last 2 years.
 
+Most importantly, I would like to thank Waldemar, Anna and Julia for their love and support while I was working on this thesis.
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+\begin{center}
+	{\bfseries \Huge Dedication}
+\end{center}
+\begin{center}
+	\vspace*{\fill}
+	\emph{\textbf{To my sister Julia}}
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+\end{center}