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The evolution of computer system architectures, from isolated workstations to supercomputers and distributed systems, yields the development of new evaluation techniques. Benchmarking, i.e., one of the most popular methodology used to establish the system performance, has been deeply influenced Sequence of timed-tests, like the original benchmarks, showed serious short-comings that have severely limited their applications on new computational environments (e.g., multiprocessors, local area and wide area networks, distributed systems). The tool for emulating system load, described in this paper, is designed with two basic objectives: to generate a repeatable workload on a system under test, and to easily modify the produced workload in order to tune its composition to match that of the real load to be emulated.
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Calzarossa, M., Serazzi, G. (1989). Tel — A Versatile Tool for Emulating System Load. In: Puigjaner, R., Potier, D. (eds) Modeling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0533-0_9
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