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IISWC 2007 Panel Benchmarking in the Web 2.0 Era. Sudhanva Gurumurthi University of Virginia. Massive Increase in Computing Power. Intel Core2 Duo™. AMD Phenom™ Quad-Core. Sun Niagara™ (8 Cores).
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IISWC 2007 PanelBenchmarking in the Web 2.0 Era Sudhanva Gurumurthi University of Virginia
Massive Increase in Computing Power Intel Core2 Duo™ AMD Phenom™ Quad-Core Sun Niagara™ (8 Cores) Future processors are expected to have several 10s to 100s of cores on a single chip (“manycore”)
Huge Drop in Storage Costs Source: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/hddpdf/tech/hdd_technology2003.pdf
Applications of the Web 2.0 Era How Do We Benchmark These Workloads? Emerging Applications (E.g., CBIR) Source: L. Huston et al., “Diamond: A Storage Architecture for Early Discard in Interactive Search”, FAST 2004.
Open Questions • What are the key emerging applications? • What are the most important hardware and software challenges for these applications? • What are the benchmarking challenges for these workloads/systems? • How can university researchers contribute?
Introducing the Panelists • Randal Bryant, Carnegie Mellon University • Shubhendu Mukherjee, Intel Corporation • Suchi Raman, Netezza Corporation • Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts • Akara Sucharitakul, Sun Microsystems