Characterizing application sensitivity to OS interference using kernel-level noise injection

2008 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ferreira, Kurt B ^a   Bridges, Patrick ^a   Brightwell, Ron ^b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; APPLICATION SCALABILITY; COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; HIGH-END SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; NOISE INJECTION; NOISE PATTERNS; OPERATING SYSTEM NOISE; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL SYSTEM; REAL-WORLD; SYSTEM SERVICES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70350759818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2008.5219920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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