Decoupling datacenter studies from access to large-scale applications: A modeling approach for storage workloads

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC - 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 51-60

  Delimitrou, Christina ^a   Sankar, Sriram ^b   Vaid, Kushagra ^b   Kozyrakis, Christos ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT; CAPITAL AND OPERATING COSTS; DATA CENTERS; DE-FRAGMENTATION; HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MODELING APPROACH; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; REAL APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL LOCALITY; STORAGE MODEL; STORAGE STUDIES; STORAGE SYSTEMS; TARGET WORKLOADS; TIME PERSPECTIVE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WIDE SPECTRUM;

CHARACTERIZATION; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; OPERATING COSTS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84856189520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2011.6114196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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