Improving web server performance through main memory compression

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 303-310

  Beltran, Vicenç ^a   Torres, Jordi ^a   Ayguadé, Eduard ^a  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTING RESOURCES; CPU SYSTEMS; DISK BANDWIDTHS; LINUX OSSA; MAIN-MEMORY COMPRESSIONS; MEMORY SIZES; MULTI-THREADED APPLICATIONS; MULTICORE ENVIRONMENTS; SCALABILITY ISSUES; WEB SERVER PERFORMANCE; WEB SERVERS;

BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SCALABILITY; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

SERVERS;

EID: 60649115272     PISSN: 15219097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPADS.2008.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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