Untangling mixed information to calibrate resource utilization in virtual machines

Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2011 and Co-located Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 151-160

  Lu, Lei ^a   Zhang, Hui ^b   Jiang, Guofei ^b   Chen, Haifeng ^b   Yoshihira, Kenji ^b   Smirni, Evgenia ^a  

^a William and Mary   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

measurements; system management; virtualization

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE RESOURCES; CALIBRATION METHODOLOGIES; CALIBRATION PROBLEMS; CPU UTILIZATION; CPU-INTENSIVE; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC MAPPING; FACTOR GRAPHS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; RELATIVE ERRORS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; RUNTIMES; SINGLE SERVER; SOURCE SEPARATION; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL LAYERS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CALIBRATION; ERRORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79960182312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1998582.1998606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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