Clearing the clouds: A study of emerging scale-out workloads on modern hardware

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 37-47

  Ferdman, Michael ^a   Adileh, Almutaz ^b   Kocberber, Onur ^b   Volos, Stavros ^b   Alisafaee, Mohammad ^b   Jevdjic, Djordje ^b   Kaynak, Cansu ^b   Popescu, Adrian Daniel ^b   Ailamaki, Anastasia ^b   Falsafi, Babak ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

architectural evaluation; cloud computing; design insights; workload characterization

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL EVALUATION; BENCHMARK SUITES; COMPUTATIONAL DENSITY; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CURRENT TRENDS; DATA CENTERS; DATA MEMORY; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; MODERN PROCESSORS; PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; POWER EFFICIENCY; PROCESSOR CORES; SERVER PROCESSORS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 84858791438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2150976.2150982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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