An investigation into the application of different performance prediction methods to distributed enterprise applications

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-111

  Bacigalupo, David A ^a   Jarvis, Stephen A ^a   He, Ligang ^a   Spooner, Daniel P ^a   Dillenberger, Donna N ^b   Nudd, Graham R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed enterprise application; Historical performance data; Layered queuing modelling; Performance prediction; Resource management; Service level agreement

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SUPERCOMPUTERS;

DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE APPLICATION; HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE DATA; LAYERED QUEUING MODELING; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 24344470048     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-005-2335-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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