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2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops
A Distributed Application-Level IT System Workload Generator
Bradford, United Kingdom
May 26-May 29
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3639-2
Developing a capacity to test distributed systems hinges on being able to generate the workloads that these systems are to process. Appropriate tools must not only generate these workloads in real-time, but must also be able to sweep through a range of possible workload characteristics to support sensitivity and robustness analyses. Currently, the majority of prior work in this area, including Harpoon, ns-2, OpNet, and tcp replay, has focused on the reproduction of workload traces at the network-level. However, for many distributed systems, reproducing application-level workload characteristics is more informative from a testing perspective. This work details such an application-level workload generation tool. The tool itself is distributed and, hence, easily scales to using multiple machines to re-create complex multi-homed workloads. Furthermore, the tool supports the standard abilities to produce both statistically-described workloads, as well as reinstantiating previously-captured workload traces.
Index Terms:
distributed computing, automatic test software
Citation:
Christopher Mueller, Michael Horie, Stephen W. Neville, "A Distributed Application-Level IT System Workload Generator," waina, pp.1100-1105, 2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2009
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