Performance scalability of a multi-core web server

ANCS'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-66

  Veal, Bryan ^a   Foong, Annie ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

cache hierarchies; load balancing; network protocol stacks; networks; parallelism; scalability; web servers

Indexed keywords

CACHE HIERARCHIES; LOAD-BALANCING; NETWORK PROTOCOL STACK; NETWORK PROTOCOL STACKS; WEB SERVERS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FLASH MEMORY; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SCALABILITY; WEB SERVICES;

SERVERS;

EID: 55849110386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1323548.1323562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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