Eve: a measurement-centric emulation environment for adaptive internet servers

Emulation plays a central role in the performance evaluation, capacity planning, and workload characterization of servers and data centers. Emulation tools usually require developers to focus on mimicking application behavior as well as to deal with system-level details of managing the emulation. With the continuing increase in computing capacity and complexity, capturing the interactions between different parts of an emulation (e.g., clients’ reactions to server reconfiguration) increases the complexity and overhead of emulation design. Furthermore, since the amount of measurement data can easily be huge, efficient data management is becoming a key requirement to the proper scalability of any emulation tool. In this paper, we propose Eve, an efficient emulation environment that provides rapid development of distributed and adaptive emulators. By incorporating in-path data processing and custom triggers into a distributed shared variable (DSV) core, Eve provides full and customiz...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SPRINGSIM
• Authors: Hani Jamjoom, Chang-Hao Tsai, Kang G. Shin, Sharad Singhal
• Keywords: Efficient Emulation Environment, Emulation Design, Emulation Tool, SPRINGSIM 2007, SPRINGSIM 2008