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SUMMARY:BenchLab: Benchmarking with Real Web Applications and Web Browsers
DTSTART:20110406T143000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Emmanuel Cecchet\, University of Massachusetts\nPopular be
 nchmarks such as TPC-W and RUBiS that are commonly used for evaluation by 
 the systems community are no longer representative of modern Web applicati
 ons.  Many of these benchmarks lack the features such as JavaScript and AJ
 AX that are essential to real Web 2.0 applications. Further\, traditional 
 benchmarks rely on browser emulators that mimic the basic network function
 ality of real web browsers but cannot emulate their more complex interacti
 ons. Rather than proposing a new benchmark with a web application and brow
 ser emulators that try to approximate real applications\, we propose to us
 e real browsers with real applications and datasets. We have rebuilt the W
 ikipedia software stack with multiple real datasets (Wikibooks\, Wikipedia
  in different languages) and collected real traces from the Wikimedia foun
 dation. In this talk\, we will present BenchLab\, an open source framework
  that allows capturing live web site traces and replaying these traces usi
 ng real web browsers (Firefox\, IE\, Chrome) deployed anywhere on the Inte
 rnet. BenchLab can also be used to distribute benchmark applications\, tra
 ces\, experimental results and reproduce entire experiments. BenchLab prov
 ides already packaged virtual machines containing applications\, databases
  and web browsers for researchers to experiment with Internet scale benchm
 arking of real applications using private or public clouds. We will presen
 t early results with Wikibooks and perform a demo of the software if techn
 ically possible.
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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