Sword: Scalable and Flexible Workload Generator for Distributed Data Processing Systems

Author

Anderson, Kay S. ; Bigus, Joseph P. ; Bouillet, Eric ; Dube, Parijat ; Halim, Nagui ; Liu, Zhen ; Pendarakis, Dimitrios

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Hawthorne, NY

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

2109

Lastpage

2116

Abstract

Workload generation is commonly employed for performance characterization, testing and benchmarking of computer systems and networks. Workload generation typically aims at simulating or emulating traffic generated by different types of applications, protocols and activities, such as Web browsing, email, chat, as well as stream multimedia traffic. We present a scalable workload generator (SWORD) that we have developed for the testing and benchmarking of high-volume data processing systems. The tool is not only scalable but is also flexible and extensible allowing the generation of workload of a variety of types of applications and of contents

Keywords

benchmark testing; computer networks; performance evaluation; SWORD; benchmarking; computer networks; computer systems; distributed data processing system; performance characterization; scalable workload generator; Application software; Benchmark testing; Character generation; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Data processing; Streaming media; System testing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2006. WSC 06. Proceedings of the Winter

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0500-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0501-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2006.323010

Filename

4117858