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IISWC 2007 PanelBenchmarking in the Web 2.0 Era

• Sudhanva Gurumurthi
• University of Virginia

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Massive Increase in Computing Power
AMD Phenom Quad-Core
Intel Core2 Duo
Sun Niagara (8 Cores)
Future processors are expected to have several
10s to 100s of cores on a single chip (manycore)
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Huge Drop in Storage Costs
Source http//www.hitachigst.com/hdd/hddpdf/tech/
hdd_technology2003.pdf
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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.
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Open Questions

1. What are the key emerging applications?
2. What are the most important hardware and software
   challenges for these applications?
3. What are the benchmarking challenges for these
   workloads/systems?
4. How can university researchers contribute?

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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