Understanding performance interference of I/O workload in virtualized cloud environments

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-58

  Pu, Xing ^a,b   Liu, Ling ^a   Mei, Yiduo ^a,c   Sivathanu, Sankaran ^a   Koh, Younggyun ^a   Pu, Calton ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE PERFORMANCE; ALLOCATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES; CLOUD SERVICES; CONTEXT SWITCH; CPU SCHEDULING; CPU-INTENSIVE; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FAST MEMORY; HARDWARE PLATFORM; I/O WORKLOAD; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; MEMORY PAGES; OR-NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINES; PERFORMANCE FACTORS; RESOURCE CONTENTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE-SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; GRID COMPUTING; HARDWARE; SERVERS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 77957938557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2010.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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