Research Article
jBM - a CPU benchmarking tool for cloud environments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.251751, author={Pietro Piazzolla and Marco Gribaudo and Giuseppe Serazzi}, title={jBM - a CPU benchmarking tool for cloud environments}, proceedings={Sixth International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS}, year={2013}, month={7}, keywords={queuing networks cloud computing benchmarking tools}, doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.251751} }- Pietro Piazzolla
Marco Gribaudo
Giuseppe Serazzi
Year: 2013
jBM - a CPU benchmarking tool for cloud environments
SIMUTOOLS
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.251751
Abstract
Cloud computing is an ever growing reality nowadays. Thepossibility of leasing and provisioning resources is an impor-tant alternative to the construction of dedicated data cen-ters. At the same time, multi-core and many-core architec-tures are becoming more and more popular and widely avail-able. However, such architectures present several challenges due to their high complexity. In particular it is essential to be able to study, test, model and simulate various aspects of these new environments, with suitable tools. In this paper we present jBM , a simple tool for the benchmarking the CPU of new architectures like multi-core or cloud systems. The tool consists of a multi-class workload generator and service centers that can be distributed along different nodes. The applicability of the tool is proven through several ap-plications to evaluate the performance of virtual machines on Amazon EC2.