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Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance

Summary: Systematic EC2 performance study with CPU/I/O/network microbenchmarks and a month-long MapReduce workload, plus local comparison. Finds two broad bands tied to VM types; availability zone and timing modulate variance, urging careful wall-clock experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10020
Venue
VLDB
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00015100872
Overall Rank
950 | 93.40%
DOI
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42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073570328
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