OS Performance Benchmarking

Modern Operating Systems consist of a number of components that despite having different purposes strongly influence each other. Unfortunately, existing OS profiling systems concentrate on some particular OS component or profile only CPU or I/O activity. Therefore, the information collected is often not sufficient to discover and easily understand possible OS performance problems. In this project we investigate techniques that allow to capture, visualize, and analyze statistical information about the OS operation as a whole, as well as several OSs that communicate over the network.

Conference and Workshop Papers:

#	Title (click for html version)	Formats	Published In	Date	Comments
1	Auto-pilot: A Platform for System Software Benchmarking	PS PDF BibTeX	Usenix Technical Conference, FREENIX Track	Apr 2005

Current Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Member Since
1	Nikolai Joukov	PhD	Jan 2004
2	Avishay Traeger	PhD	Sep 2003

Past Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Period	Current Location
1	Rakesh Narayan Iyer	MS	Sep 2004 - Dec 2005	Storage Software engineer, Software Storage, NVidia (Santa Clara, CA)

Sponsors:

#	Sponsor	Amount	Period	Type	Title (click for award abstract)
1	NSF HECURA	$760,253	2006-2009	PI	File System Tracing, Replaying, Profiling, and Analysis on HEC Systems

(Last updated: Wed Aug 9 16:16:02 EDT 2006)