Proceedings - Poster Session. Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2004. June 12th-16th 2004, Columbia University, New York.
Mengzhi Wang, Kinman Au, Anastassia Ailamaki, Anthony Brockwell, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/
This work explores the application of a machine learning tool, CART modeling, to storage devices. We have developed approaches to predict a device's performance as a function of input workloads, requiring no knowledge of the device internals. Two uses of CART models are considered: one that predicts per-request response times (and then derives aggregate values) and one that predicts aggregate values directly from workload characteristics. After training on the device in question, both provide reasonably-accurate black box models across a range of test traces from real environments. An expanded version of this paper is available as a technical report.
KEYWORDS: Performance prediction, Storage device modeling