Workload characterization and generation

From RAD Lab

People:

Students:

• Archana Ganapathi
• Kristal Sauer

Faculty:

• David Patterson
• Armando Fox
• Anthony Joseph

Recent Talks:

• AWE: A General Simulation Framework
• Towards a Smart Workload Generator on Ramp
• A Framework for Workload Generation

Links to related work:

1. [Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage]
2. AWE: A General Simulation Framework - Kristal, Charles, & Alex's class project report for CS262A 'Advanced Topics in Computer Systems', Fall 2008.
3. Towards Web Server Workload Characterization and Generation - Archana's class project report for CS294 'Practical Machine Learning', Fall 2006.
4. [Web polygraph] - tools and benchmarks for Web middleboxes
5. [RAMP], a Linux based workload generator with configurable "model files" for generating diffrent traffic types, based on tcpdump
6. [MS Visual Studio] has built in facilities for doing stress-testing of Visual Studio-built websites
7. [Generating Probabilistic and Intensity Varying Workload for Web Based Software Systems] - Markov chains to model user behavior + FSM for Application model
8. [Open vs Closed a Cautionary Tale]- Outlines pros and cons of using open, closed and partly open system models for web workload generators
9. [Magpie workload modeling paper]
10. [A Workload Generation Tool for Distributed Information Flow Applications]
11. [Workload Emulator (CoWorkEr) Utilization Test Suite (CUTS)]
12. [SURGE]
13. [SPECWeb]
14. TPC-W
15. SLAMd
16. FileBench
17. [GridMix]