An observation-based approach to performance characterization of distributed n-tier applications

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 161-170

  Pu, Calton ^a   Sahai, Akhil ^b   Parekh, Jason ^a   Jung, Gueyoung ^a   Bae, Ji ^a   Cha, You Kyung ^a   Garcia, Timothy ^a   Irani, Danesh ^a   Lee, Jae ^a   Lin, Qifeng ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; APPLICATION SERVERS; BENCHMARKING APPLICATION; CHALLENGING PROBLEM; CODE GENERATIONS; COMPLEX STRUCTURES; DATA-BASE SERVERS; ERROR PRONE; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; PARAMETER SETTINGS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; SOFTWARE/HARDWARE; TIME CONSUMING; WIDE-RANGE; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SERVERS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 47349106816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2007.4362192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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