As multi-core architectures flourish in the marketplace, multi-application workload scenarios (such as server consolidation) are growing rapidly. When running multiple application...
Li Zhao, Ravi R. Iyer, Ramesh Illikkal, Jaideep Mo...
A basic problem in the management of web servers is capacity planning: you want enough capacity to be able to serve peak loads, but not too much so as to avoid excessive costs. It...
Multiprocessor operating systems (OSs) pose several unique and conflicting challenges to System Virtual Machines (System VMs). For example, most existing system VMs resort to gan...
Philip M. Wells, Koushik Chakraborty, Gurindar S. ...
Virtual Machine (VM) environments (e.g., VMware and Xen) are experiencing a resurgence of interest for diverse uses including server consolidation and shared hosting. An applicati...
Aravind Menon, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, ...
Today’s chip-level multiprocessors (CMPs) feature up to a hundred discrete cores, and with increasing levels of integration, CMPs with hundreds of cores, cache tiles, and specia...
Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, Onu...