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Operational Analysis of Parallel Servers

Category: Desktops, Laptops and OS, Servers and Server OS

Tags: software, management, applications

Overview Multicore processors promise continued hardware performance improvements even as single-core performance flattens out. However they also enable increasingly complex application software that threatens to obfuscate application-level performance. This paper applies operational analysis to the problem of understanding and predicting application-level performance in parallel servers. The paper presents operational laws that offer both insight and actionable information based on lightweight passive external observations of black-box applications. One law accurately infers queuing delays; others predict the performance implications of expanding or reducing capacity. The former enables improved monitoring and system management; the latter enable capacity planning and dynamic resource provisioning to incorporate application-level performance in a principled way.

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Publisher: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
File Format: PDF
Date Published: May 1, 2009
Format: White Papers
Topics: Parallel Processing, Processors

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