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1. Benchmark

  • Filebench Filebench is a file system and storage benchmark that allows to generate a high variety of workloads. It employs extensive Workload Model Language (WML) for detailed workload specification.
  • Fio fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification.
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory: Computer Science Research & Data Codes HEC FSIO maintains several open-source and data projects in order to promote collaboration on high-performance computing research and development.
  • SPECweb2009 SPECweb2009 is the next-generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating web server performance.
  • Iometer Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems.
  • IOR HPC Benchmark The IOR software is used for benchmarking parallel file systems using POSIX, MPIIO, or HDF5 interfaces.
  • FLASH I/O Benchmark Routine — Parallel HDF 5 The FLASH I/O benchmark routine measures the performance of the FLASH parallel HDF 5 output.
  • NAS Parallel Benchmarks The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) are a small set of programs designed to help evaluate the performance of parallel supercomputers.
  • Parallel I/O Benchmarking Consortium The purpose of the Parallel I/O Benchmarking Consortium is to provide a set of benchmarks for use in characterizing the performance of a parallel I/O system.
  • Parallel I/O Benchmarks Since I am often asked if I know of any parallel I/O benchmarks that are available, I have put together a list of the ones I am aware of (in no particular order).
  • MADbench2 MADbench2 is a tool for testing the overall integrated performance of the I/O, communication and calculation subsystems of massively parallel architectures under the stresses of a real scientific application.
  • PARKBENCH 99 – Projects This page contains links to benchmarking and other performance related projects at the University of Southampton. These include the new Genesis codes, a parallel I/O benchmark suite and new tools that have been developed for post-processing PARKBENCH 99

2. Trace

3. Monitor

  • Lm_sensors Linux hardware monitoring
  • Hddtemp hddtemp is a small utility (daemonizable) that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (for drives that support this feature).
  • Hard Disk Sentinel Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures.
  • Hard drive temperature monitor
  • PowerTOP Computer programs can make your computer use more power. PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find those programs that are misbehaving while your computer is idle.

4. Conference

  • FAST '12 Call for Papers Paper titles and abstracts due: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 11:59 p.m. EDT Paper submissions due: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 11:59 p.m. EDT (Hard deadline, no extensions) Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Final paper files due: Mo
  • High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) Repository Abstract deadline: August 24, 2011 11:59 PM EDT Submission deadline (no extensions): August 31, 2011 11:59 PM EDT Workshop and tutorial proposals due: August 31, 2011 Author notification of paper outcome: November 9, 2011 Conference dates: February 25-29,
  • Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming Abstract Submission: August 12, 2011 (11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time) Full Paper Submission: August 19, 2011 (11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time) Rebuttal Period: October 31-November 2, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: November 18, 2011
  • ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
  • Green Computing Orlando, Florida, USA, (The Holiday Inn at Disneyworld) July 25-28, 2011
  • ISCA 2012 Abstract Deadline: November 14th, 2011, 11:59PM CST
  • EuroSys 2012
  • MSST 2012 Sponsored by the IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee

5. Database

6. Researcher

  • Kai Li
  • Yuanyuan Zhou Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou is a Qualcomm Chair Professor at University of California, San Diego, where she joined since 2009.
  • Andy Wang Andy Wang received his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from UCLA in 2003 and 1998, and his B.S. from UC Berkeley in 1995. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University as an Assistant Professor in 2003. His research interests
  • Vincent (Vince) W. Freeh research interests include operating systems, compilers, and programming languages.
  • Xiaorui (Ray) Wang Power, thermal, and performance management for computer systems and data centers; Power-aware real-time embedded systems; Wireless sensor networks and cyber-physical systems
  • Ken Christensen research focuses on how to reduce the energy consumption of ICT with an emphasis on wired networks and network-connected hosts at the edge of the Internet.
  • Xiao Qin Associate Professor of Computer Science
  • Jun Wang research interests include: Data-intensive High Performance Computing Massive Storage and File System I/O Architecture Peer-to-Peer System Low-power Computing
  • Hong Jiang Computer Systems Architecture, especially design and analysis of distributed storage and file systems, memory hierarchy in multi- and many-core systems, memory management, performance evaluations; Ø Cluster and Grid Computing, especially middleware desi
  • Rajeev Thakur My research interests are in the area of high-performance computing in general and particularly in parallel programming models and message-passing and I/O libraries.
  • Garth Gibson I am interested in large-scale parallelism in computer systems and its implications on application performance, operating system design, fault tolerance and data center manageability.
  • Wu-chun Feng SyNeRGy Laboratory
  • Ricardo Bianchini Professor, Rutgers University
  • Sudhanva Gurumurthi Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of Virginia
  • Jun Wu Dr. Jun Wu is currently working in Google as a research scientist. His research is directed at the design and implementation of algorithms for information retrieval and natural language processing. Some of his algorithms are used by millions of people eve
  • Geoffrey Zweig SCARF: Speech Recognition with Segmental Conditional Random Fields Voice Search: Getting information over the cellphone Speech Recognition Infrastructure: Trainers and Decoders Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Speech Recognition: Boo

7. JavaScript benchmark

8. Brouser GPU benchmark

9. Program Tools

  • Twisted Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source.
  • node.js Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8.
  • Dart Structured web programming
  • MSDN Microsoft Developer Network Platforms home page.
  • The Archive of Interesting Code every interesting algorithm and data structure ever invented.
  • nginx A HTTP and mail proxy server licensed under a 2-clause BSD-like license. By Igor Sysoev. [Unix, Mac OS X]

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