IRONModel: Robust performance models in the wild

SIGMETRICS'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 1 SPECIAL ISSUE, 2008, Pages 253-264

  Thereska, Eno ^a   Ganger, Gregory R ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active probing; Behavioral modeling; Management; What if

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTERS; SPECIFICATIONS; SPEED CONTROL;

ACTIVE PROBING; ACTUAL SYSTEMS; AND MODELS; BEHAVIORAL MODELING; CAPACITY PLANNING; LESSONS LEARNED; PERFORMANCE ANOMALIES; PERFORMANCE DEBUGGING; PERFORMANCE MODELS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; ROBUST PERFORMANCES; STORAGE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DESIGNERS; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATIONS; SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS; TWO TYPES; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS; WHAT-IF;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57349156162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1375457.1375486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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