Abstract—The distributed nature and large scale of MapReduce programs and systems poses two challenges in using existing profiling and debugging tools to understand MapReduce pr...
—Given limited resource and time before software release, development-site testing and debugging become more and more insufficient to ensure satisfactory software performance. As...
Shi Han, Yingnong Dang, Song Ge, Dongmei Zhang, Ta...
Previous work shows request tracing systems help understand and debug the performance problems of multi-tier services. However, for large-scale data centers, more than hundreds of...
There are four crucial issues associated with performance simulators: simulator retargetability, simulator validation, simulation speed and simulation accuracy. This paper documen...
Bryan Black, Andrew S. Huang, Mikko H. Lipasti, Jo...
An execution trace contains a description of everything that happened during an execution of a program. Execution traces are useful, because they can help software engineers under...