Evaluation of multi-core scalability bottlenecks in enterprise java workloads

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 308-317

  Guerin, Xavier ^a   Tan, Wei ^a   Liu, Yanbin ^a   Seelam, Seetharami ^a   Dube, Parijat ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARES; GLOBAL TRENDS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; JAVA WORKLOADS; MODERN PROCESSORS; MULTI CORE; PARALLEL CONFIGURATION; SCALABILITY EVALUATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INDUSTRY; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84868226417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOTS.2012.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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