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BigDataBench-MT: A benchmark tool for generating realistic mixed data center workloads

  • Rui Han*
  • , Shulin Zhan
  • , Chenrong Shao
  • , Junwei Wang
  • , Lizy K. John
  • , Jiangtao Xu
  • , Gang Lu
  • , Lei Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • ICarsclub
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University
  • Kingsoft Cloud
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

Long-running service workloads (e.g. web search engine) and short-term data analysis workloads (e.g. Hadoop MapReduce jobs) colocate in today’s data centers. Developing realistic benchmarks to reflect such practical scenario of mixed workload is a key problem to produce trustworthy results when evaluating and comparing data center systems. This requires using actual workloads as well as guaranteeing their submissions to follow patterns hidden in real-world traces. However, existing benchmarks either generate actual workloads based on probability models, or replay real-world workload traces using basic I/O operations. To fill this gap, we propose a benchmark tool that is a first step towards generating a mix of actual service and data analysis workloads on the basis of real workload traces. Our tool includes a combiner that enables the replaying of actual workloads according to the workload traces, and a multi-tenant generator that flexibly scales the workloads up and down according to users’ requirements. Based on this, our demo illustrates the workload customization and generation process using a visual interface. The proposed tool, called BigDataBench-MT, is a multitenant version of our comprehensive benchmark suite BigDataBench and it is publicly available from http://prof.ict.ac.cn/BigDataBench/ multi-tenancyversion/.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBig Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware - 6th Workshop, BPOE 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsRoberto V. Zicari, Jianfeng Zhan, Rui Han
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages10-21
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319290058
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event6th Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware, BPOE 2015 - Kohala, United States
Duration: 31 Aug 20154 Sept 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9495
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware, BPOE 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKohala
Period31/08/154/09/15

Keywords

  • Benchmark
  • Data center
  • Mixed workloads
  • Workload trace

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