Using latency to evaluate interactive system performance
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
The interactive performance of SLIM: a stateless, thin-client architecture
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Limits of wide-area thin-client computing
SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Measuring thin-client performance using slow-motion benchmarking
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
IEEE Internet Computing
Analysis of Personal Computer Workloads
MASCOTS '99 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Statistical Service Assurances for Applications in Utility Grid Environments
MASCOTS '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
Resource overbooking and application profiling in shared hosting platforms
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An analytical model for multi-tier internet services and its applications
SIGMETRICS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
THINC: a virtual display architecture for thin-client computing
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Interactive performance measurement with VNCplay
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
The collective: a cache-based system management architecture
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Measuring and characterizing system behavior using kernel-level event logging
ATEC '00 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
vManage: loosely coupled platform and virtualization management in data centers
ICAC '09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Autonomic computing
Loosely coupled coordinated management in virtualized data centers
Cluster Computing
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A remote desktop utility system is an emerging client/server networked model for enterprise desktops. In this model, a shared pool of consolidated compute and storage servers host users' desktop applications and data respectively. End-users are allocated resources for a desktop session from the shared pool on-demand, and they interact with their applications over the network using remote display technologies. Understanding the detailed behavior of applications in these remote desktop utilities is crucial for more effective QoS management. However, there are challenges due to hard-to-predict workloads, complexity, and scale. In this paper, we present a detailed modeling of a remote desktop system through case study of an Office application - email. The characterization provides insights into workload and user model, the effect of remote display technology, and implications of shared infrastructure. We then apply these learnings and modeling results for improved QoS resource management decisions - achieving over 90% improvement compared to state of the art allocation mechanisms. We also present discussion on generalizing a methodology for a broader applicability of model-driven resource management.