VrtProf: Vertical profiling for system virtualization

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mousa, Hussam ^a,b   Doshi, Kshitij ^b   Sherwood, Timothy ^a   Ould Ahmed Vall, Elmoustapha ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE BEHAVIOR; DATA CENTERS; END USERS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; LOW OVERHEAD; NON-TRIVIAL; PROFILING TOOLS; PROGRAM PHASIS; RARE EVENT; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; TIME VARYING; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT EFFECT; VERTICAL PROFILING; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 77951754117     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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