IISWC 2007 Panel

Benchmarking in the Web 2.0 Era

Sudhanva GurumurthiUniversity of Virginia

Massive Increase in Computing Power

AMD Phenom™ Quad-CoreIntel Core2 Duo™ Sun Niagara™ (8 Cores)

Future processors are expected to have several 10s to 100s of cores on a single chip (“manycore”)

Huge Drop in Storage Costs

Source: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/hddpdf/tech/hdd_technology2003.pdf

Applications of the Web 2.0 Era

Source: L. Huston et al., “Diamond: A Storage Architecture for Early Discard in Interactive Search”, FAST 2004.

Emerging Applications

(E.g., CBIR)

How Do We Benchmark TheseWorkloads?

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?

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