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SUMMARY:SPECjms2007 - A Novel Benchmark and Performance Analysis Framework
  for Message-Oriented Middleware - Samuel Kounev\, Computer Laboratory\, U
 niversity of Cambridge
DTSTART:20071016T133000Z
DTEND:20071016T143000Z
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CONTACT:Minor Gordon
DESCRIPTION:Message-oriented middleware (MOM) is at the core of a vast num
 ber of financial services and telco applications\, and is gaining increasi
 ng traction in other industries\, such as manufacturing\, transportation\,
  health-care and supply chain management. There is a strong interest in th
 e end user and analyst communities for a standardized benchmark suite for 
 evaluating the performance and scalability of MOM. In this talk\, we will 
 present the new SPECjms2007 benchmark which is the world’s first industr
 y-standard benchmark specialized for MOM. In addition to providing standar
 d workload and metrics for MOM performance\, the benchmark provides a flex
 ible performance analysis framework that allows users to customize the wor
 kload according to their requirements. SPECjms2007 is based on a novel app
 lication scenario modeling the supply chain of a supermarket company. The 
 participants involved are the supermarket company\, its stores\, its distr
 ibution centers and its suppliers. It offers an excellent basis for defini
 ng interactions that stress different subsets of the functionality offered
  by MOM servers\, e.g. different message types as well as both P2P and pub
 /sub communication. The scenario also offers a natural way to scale the wo
 rkload\, e.g. by scaling the number of Supermarkets (horizontal) or by sca
 ling the amount of products sold per Supermarket (vertical). We will prese
 nt a workload characterization of the benchmark with the goal to i) to hel
 p users understand the internal components of the SPECjms2007 workload and
  the way they are scaled\, ii) to show how the workload can be customized 
 to exercise and evaluate selected aspects of MOM performance. We will disc
 uss how the various features supported by the benchmark can be exploited f
 or in-depth performance analysis of MOM infrastructures. 
LOCATION:Room FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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