One role for workload generation is as a means for understanding how servers and networks respond to variation in load. This enables management and capacity planning based on curr...
IPTV service providers offering Video-on-Demandcurrently use servers at each metropolitan office to store all the videos in their library. With the rapid increase in library sizes...
David Applegate, Aaron Archer, Vijay Gopalakrishna...
It is difficult to build user interfaces that must be distributed over a set of dynamic and heterogeneous I/O devices. This difficulty increases when we want to split, merge, repl...
Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz,...
Scale-out approach, in contrast to scale-up approach (exploring increasing performance by utilizing more powerful shared-memory servers), refers to deployment of applications on a...
Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off unnece...
Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas...