Intern
Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

Systems Benchmarking

Benchmarking & Metrics

Another important area of our research related to the described vision is the development of standard metrics, tools and benchmarks for quantitative system evaluation and analysis, focusing on quality-of-service (QoS) and efficiency-related aspects. In line with this direction, we co-founded a new group within SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) called SPEC Research Group (SPEC RG) with the mission to serve as a platform for collaborative research efforts in the area of quantitative system evaluation and analysis, fostering the interaction between industry and academia in the field. The scope of the group includes computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis considering both classical performance metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other non-functional system properties included under the term dependability, e.g., availability, reliability, and security.

The SPEC RG currently has over 50 member organizations from academia and industry. The conducted research efforts span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing, profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency evaluation of computing systems. As part of these efforts, our research group is actively involved in the development of: i) metrics and benchmarks for intrusion detection and prevention systems in virtualized environments, ii) metrics and benchmarks for quantifying the elasticity of IaaS/PaaS environments, and iii) metrics and benchmarks for quantifying performance isolation in multi-tenant SaaS environments.

More information and the latest news about the SPEC RG can be found at the website of the SPEC Research Group.

Book

Systems Benchmarking (1st ed.) by Samuel Kounev, Klaus-Dieter Lange, and Jóakim von Kistowski. Published by Springer International Publishing, 2020.

The website for the book can be found here.

Cite This Book

@book{
KoLaKi-2020-SystemsBenchmarking,
author = {Samuel Kounev and Klaus-Dieter Lange and Jóakim von Kistowski},
title = {{Systems Benchmarking}},
subtitle = {{For Scientists and Engineers}},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
year = {2020},
edition = {1},
isbn = {978-3-030-41704-8}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-41705-5},
}