Achieving application-centric performance targets via consolidation on multicores: Myth or reality?

HPDC '12 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 37-48

  Chen, Lydia Y ^a   Ansaloni, Danilo ^b   Smirni, Evgenia ^c   Yokokawa, Akira ^b   Binder, Walter ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Multicores; Performance modeling

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; APPLICATION SCALABILITY; APPLICATION-CENTRIC; AVERAGE ERRORS; BENCHMARK SUITES; HARDWARE RESOURCES; LIGHT WEIGHT; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; MULTI-CORES; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; NON-INTRUSIVE; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PERFORMANCE TARGETS; RESOURCE DEMANDS; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; RESOURCE USAGE; STANDARD TOOLS; SYSTEM RESOURCES;

CONSOLIDATION; QUEUEING THEORY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863977906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2287076.2287083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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