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”)
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?