HPL-2009-8 Operational Analysis of Parallel Servers - Kelly, Terence; Shen, Kai; Zhang, Alex; Stewart, Christopher
Keyword(s): performance modeling, performance prediction, capacity planning, system management, operational analysis, multicore processors, capacity adjustment ACPI C-states, parallel computing, occupancy curve
Abstract: 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 ...
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