Understanding, modelling, and improving the performance of web applications in multicore virtualised environments
Xi Chen, Chin Pang Ho, Rasha Osman, Peter G. Harrison, William J. Knottenbelt · 2014
As the computing industry enters the Cloud era, multicore architectures and virtualisation technologies are replacing traditional IT infrastructures. However, the complex relationship between applications and system resources in multicore virtualised environments is not well understood. Workloads such as web services and on-line financial applications have the requirement of high performance but benchmark analysis suggests that these applications do not optimally benefit from a higher number of cores.