A synthetic workload generator for cluster computing

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 (Abstracts and CD-ROM)

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 3329-3336

  Denneulin, Yves ^a   Romagnoli, Emmanuel ^a   Trystram, Denis ^a  

^a APACHE Lab ID   (France)

Author keywords

Clusters; Parallel resource management; Workload analysis; Workload generation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA PROCESSING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

CLUSTERS; PARALLEL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD GENERATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 12444339789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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