Accelerometer and SoftSKU: Improving hardware platform performance for diverse microservices
May 11, 2020Abhishek Dhanotia, Vijay Balakrishnan
Summary
Introduced SoftSKU, a novel mechanism to optimize server processors for specific microservices by exploiting OS and hardware configuration knobs, achieving up to 7.2% performance improvement without new hardware. Developed Accelerometer, an analytical model to predict hardware acceleration gains with less than 3.7% error rate, aiding in informed hardware investment decisions.
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