Workload characterization and generation

From RAD Lab

People:

Students:

• Archana Ganapathi
• Kristal Sauer

Faculty:

• David Patterson
• Armando Fox
• Anthony Joseph

Recent Talks:

• Towards a Smart Workload Generator on Ramp
• A Framework for Workload Generation

Links to related work:

1. [Web polygraph] - tools and benchmarks for Web middleboxes
2. [RAMP], a Linux based workload generator with configurable "model files" for generating diffrent traffic types, based on tcpdump
3. [MS Visual Studio] has built in facilities for doing stress-testing of Visual Studio-built websites
4. [Generating Probabilistic and Intensity Varying Workload for Web Based Software Systems] - Markov chains to model user behavior + FSM for Application model
5. [Open vs Closed a Cautionary Tale]- Outlines pros and cons of using open, closed and partly open system models for web workload generators
6. [Magpie workload modeling paper]
7. [A Workload Generation Tool for Distributed Information Flow Applications]
8. [Workload Emulator (CoWorkEr) Utilization Test Suite (CUTS)]
9. [SURGE]
10. [SPECWeb]
11. TPC-W
12. SLAMd