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A Comparison of File System Workloads
Analyzing CUDA workloads using a detailed GPU simulator
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
Utilization, Predictability, Workloads, and User Runtime Estimates in Scheduling the IBM SP2 with Backfilling
Generating representative web workloads for network and server performance evaluation. Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS
HadoopDB: an architectural hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS technologies for analytical workloads
Interactive analytical processing in big data systems: a cross-industry study of MapReduce workloads
Interactive analytical processing in big data systems: a cross-industry study of MapReduce workloads
Combined dynamic voltage scaling and adaptive body biasing for lower power microprocessors under dynamic workloads