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Workloads for Niagara: Customer Deployments of Sun Niagara CMT Systems One Year On
White Papers This paper explores customer adoption of the Niagara processor since its market introduction in December 2005, focusing on the range of workloads that are running today on this Chip MultiThreaded (CMT) platform.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Memory and Network Bandwidth Aware Scheduling of Multiprogrammed Workloads on Clusters of SMPs
White Papers Then, the paper presents the design and implementation of an informed gang-like scheduling algorithm aimed at improving the throughput of multiprogrammed workloads on clusters of SMPs. Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMPs), combined with modern...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Evaluating Availability of Networked Storages Using Commercial Workloads
White Papers The paper uses a new benchmark tool called N-SPEK (Networked-Storage Performability Evaluation Kernel-module) to measure performance dynamics under commercial workloads with various faulty conditions of different parts of a SAN system.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
TechNet Webcast: How to Virtualize Infrastructure Workloads (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast explains about virtualization of infrastructure workloads such as Active Directory, file and print, and Web servers, and the benefits of mixed workload virtualization. It discusses details, tips, and tricks for creating an effective...
[July 7, 2006, 1:00]
Optimizing Data Mining Workloads Using Hardware Accelerators
White Papers They first highlight important characteristics of these workloads. Data mining is the process of finding useful and actionable patterns in large data sets. Data mining algorithms have become vital to researchers in science, engineering, medicine...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Understanding the Memory Performance of Data-Mining Workloads on Small, Medium, and Large-Scale CMPs Using Hardware-Software Co-Simulation
White Papers As a result, future multi-core systems will be required to process terabyte-level workloads. With the amount of data continuing to grow, extracting "Data of interest" is becoming popular, pervasive, and more important than ever.
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Understanding the Behavior of TCP for Realtime CBR Workloads
White Papers This paper examines the feasibility of sending real-time CBR workloads over TCP. Traditionally, TCP has been considered un-desirable for real-time CBR workloads. This assertion is evaluated by developing a novel analytical tool that yields TCP's...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Veritas Storage Foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS: A Performance Study Based on Commercial Workloads
White Papers This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers.
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads
White Papers Today Linux has become a key server for supporting commercial workloads. This white paper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Hyper-V: Bridging the Gap Between Windows Server 2008 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 10: Transforming Virtualization Solutions Through Combined Workloads
White Papers The Microsoft and Novell development work done around Hyper-V has created a unique solution that enables Windows Server 2008 to host SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as an enlightened guest, consolidating workloads for increased efficiency and...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Hosting Core Infrastructure Production Workloads Using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
White Papers Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 allows certain core infrastructure workloads to be hosted in virtual machines for production purposes. This paper describes the methods and process to accomplish virtualization of core infrastructure production...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
Database Workloads on Sun Fire Servers With CoolThreads Technology
White Papers This result demonstrates breakthrough levels of throughput with associated dramatic space and power savings delivered by Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology for OLTP database workloads, adding up to a server efficiency rating of over 11X...
[August 20, 2007, 4:28]
Improving Linux Block I/O for Enterprise Workloads
White Papers This paper examines the performance of the 2.4 Linux kernel's block I/O subsystem on enterprise workloads. It identifies some of the major bottlenecks in the block layer and proposes kernel modifications to alleviate these problems in the context...
[February 4, 2009, 23:00]
An Evaluation of Server Consolidation Workloads for Multi-Core Designs
White Papers In the meantime, one sure-fire application for such machines will be to serve as consolidation platforms for sets of workloads that previously occupied multiple discrete systems. This paper studies the behavior of server consolidation workloads...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Evaluation of ESX Server Under CPU Intensive Workloads
White Papers The paper explores how configuration changes affect the throughput of virtual machines hosted on ESX Server during CPU intensive workloads. Virtual machines are used by IT departments to provide better hardware utilization and to isolate users and...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Fibre Channel and iSCSI Performance Comparison for DSS Workloads Using SQL Server 2005
White Papers For many years, large enterprises have relied on Fibre Channel (FCP) as the default Storage Area Network (SAN) protocol for high-performance application and database workloads. As enterprises look to drive down costs and reduce the Total Cost of...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Desktop Virtualization Improves Application Management, Reduces IT Workloads
White Papers Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 helped them resolve these issues by offering centralized application management and reducing IT workloads. The IT staff at Ardentec, a semiconductor testing company, was experiencing software version and...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
Monitor, Manage, and Tune Workloads Using BMC MAINVIEW
White Papers This webcast provides adequate processing for the critical z/OS workloads. The attendee of this webcast will learn more as it see how BMC MAINVIEW can easily help a person to determine if goals are being met and interpret WLM values.
[June 6, 2007, 1:00]
Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers : How NEC Supports IT Best Practices
White Papers IDC's Views: Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers: How NEC Supports IT Best Practices Within the typical enterprise-class datacenter, delivering mission-critical workloads with predictable levels of scale and reliability and supporting...
[October 5, 2009, 9:30]
Server Virtualization in Autonomic Management of Heterogeneous Workloads
White Papers This paper explores in particular the use of server virtualization technology in the autonomic management of data centers running a heterogeneous mix of workloads. This paper presents a system that manages heterogeneous workloads to their...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
