BOPS, a new computation-centric metric for datacenter computing

L Wang, W Gao, K Yang, Z Jiang - … 2019, Denver, CO, USA, November 14 …, 2020 - Springer
For emerging datacenter (in short, DC) workloads, such as online Internet services or offline
data analytics, how to evaluate the upper bound performance and provide apple-to-apple …

BOPS, not FLOPS! A new metric and roofline performance model for datacenter computing

L Wang, J Zhan, W Gao, KY Yang, ZH Jiang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
For emerging datacenter (in short, DC) workloads, such as online Internet services or offline
data analytics, how to evaluate the upper bound performance and provide apple-to-apple …

In datacenter performance, the only constant is change

D Duplyakin, A Uta, A Maricq… - 2020 20th IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
All computing infrastructure suffers from performance variability, be it bare-metal or
virtualized. This phenomenon originates from many sources: some transient, such as noisy …

Practical iterative optimization for the data center

S Fang, W Xu, Y Chen, L Eeckhout, O Temam… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Iterative optimization is a simple but powerful approach that searches the best possible
combination of compiler optimizations for a given workload. However, iterative optimization …

[HTML][HTML] Less is not more: We need rich datasets to explore

L Versluis, M Cetin, C Greeven, K Laursen… - Future Generation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional datacenter analysis is based on high-level, coarse-grained metrics. This
obscures our vision of datacenter behavior, as we do not observe the full picture nor …

AIBench: towards scalable and comprehensive datacenter AI benchmarking

W Gao, C Luo, L Wang, X Xiong, J Chen, T Hao… - … , and Optimizing: First …, 2019 - Springer
AI benchmarking provides yardsticks for benchmarking, measuring and evaluating
innovative AI algorithms, architecture, and systems. Coordinated by BenchCouncil, this …

A holistic evaluation methodology for configuring production data centers

Y Wen, Y Zhang, G Cheng, S Deng… - … Practice and Experience, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Performance evaluation is the basis for choosing appropriate system‐level configurations for
large‐scale data centers. While the change of a system‐level configuration would impact …

[PDF][PDF] Data dwarfs: Motivating a coverage set for future large data center workloads

M Shah, P Ranganathan, J Chang, N Tolia… - … Concerns in Large …, 2010 - shiftleft.com
Recent trends in systems architecture include the growing importance of warehouse-sized
computers and new solutions to address the scalability and power efficiency challenges in …

Characterizing data analysis workloads in data centers

Z Jia, L Wang, J Zhan, L Zhang… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the amount of data explodes rapidly, more and more corporations are using data centers
to make effective decisions and gain a competitive edge. Data analysis applications play a …

Understanding processors design decisions for data analytics in homogeneous data centers

Z Jia, W Gao, Y Shi, SA McKee, Z Ji… - … Transactions on Big …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our global economy increasingly depends on our ability to gather, analyze, link, and
compare very large data sets. Keeping up with such big data poses challenges in terms of …