29 days, 11K servers of Google Cluster Server data shared with Researchers

greenm3.com (Dec 7 2011)

1. Google had a crazy idea a year ago, let's share some of our cluster data to the research community.  In Jan 2010, Google shared 7 hrs of data. Google Cluster Data Posted by Joseph L. Hellerstein, Manager of Google Performance AnalyticsGoogle faces a large number of technical challenges in the evolution of its applications and infrastructure. In particular, as we increase the size of our compute clusters and scale the work that they process, many issues arise in how to schedule the diversity of work that runs on Google systems.We have distilled these challenges into the following research topics that we feel are interesting to the academic community and important to Google: Workload characterizations: How can we characterize Google workloads in a way that readily generates synthetic work that is representative of production workloads so that we can run stand alone benchmarks? Predictive models of workload characteristics: What ... (Read Full Article)

   Bookmark or Share this article

Login to comment.