Statistical Characterization of Real-World Distributed System Workloads

Enquisite Software provides analytical services to corporate clients through the “mining” of data detailing how the clients’ customers interact with the clients’ Internet points-of-presence. To facilitate this work, Enquisite collects a continuous stream of client interaction data, which is stored in an Enquisite-held repository, over which Enquisite clients perform on-demand queries for business actionable knowledge. In order to cost-effectively build the IT system required to support their business model, Enquisite needs to understand the statistical nature of the workloads which their IT system must be designed to process. Thus, this internship will develop the required statistical workload models through the analysis of the historical workload records held by Enquisite.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Stephen Neville

Student:

Fiona Warman

Partner:

Enquisite Software Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria