Performance measurements and analysis of network I/O applications in virtualized cloud

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-66

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

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Performance measurement; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CLOUD PROVIDERS; COMMUNICATION RESOURCES; DATA CENTERS; I/O APPLICATIONS; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICES; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; MEASUREMENT BASED ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RESOURCE SHARING; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 77957951397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2010.74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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