When creating mission-critical distributed systems using off-the-shelf components, it is important to assess the dependability of not only the hardware, but the software as well. ...
Philip J. Koopman Jr., John Sung, Christopher P. D...
This article describes a new benchmark, called the Effective System Performance (ESP) test, which is designed to measure system-level performance, including such factors as job sc...
Adrian T. Wong, Leonid Oliker, William T. C. Krame...
This paper presents a benchmark for dependablesystems. The benchmark consists of two metrics, number of catastrophic incidents and performance degradation, which are obtained by a...
Complete system simulation to understand the influence of architecture and operating systems on application execution has been identified to be crucial for systems design. While t...
Tao Li, Lizy Kurian John, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan,...
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...