Robust partial-load experiments with Showstopper

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F16%3A10332413" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/16:10332413 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.04.020" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.04.020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.04.020" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.future.2016.04.020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Robust partial-load experiments with Showstopper

Original language description

Concurrent execution of multiple applications leads to varying partial utilization of shared resources. Understanding system behavior in these conditions is essential for making concurrent execution efficient. Unfortunately, anticipating behavior of shared resources at partial utilization in complex systems is difficult, realistic experiments that reproduce and examine such behavior are therefore needed. To facilitate experiments at partial utilization, we present a tool that accurately controls the processor utilization of arbitrary concurrent workloads, either establishing constant partial load or replaying a variable load trace. We validate the ability of the tool to enforce the configured partial utilization on multiple platforms, and use the tool to collect novel information on system behavior at partial utilization levels. In detail, our experiments show how to examine the complex relationship between utilization and throughput, useful for tasks such as performance debugging or system dimensioning, and we show this relationship for the DaCapo benchmarks. Further, we show that CPU pinning (a technique used to improve workload isolation) can benefit from dynamic response to system utilization, improving system efficiency with partial utilization. Finally, we show that the overhead of virtualization also changes with partial utilization and CPU allocation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

IN - Informatics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Future Generation Computer Systems

ISSN

0167-739X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

15-38

UT code for WoS article

000381843200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84973338470