Principal Investigator M Kaashoek
Co-investigator Nickolai Zeldovich
Project Website http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mosbench/
Mosbench is a set of application benchmarks designed to measure scalability of operating systems. It consists of applications that previous work has shown not to scale well on Linux and applications that are designed for parallel execution and are kernel intensive. The applications and workloads are chosen to stress important parts of many kernel components.
Mosbench includes Exim, a mail server; Memcached, an object cache; Apache, a web server; PostgreSQL, a SQL database; gmake, a parallel build system; psearchy, a parallel text indexer; and Metis, a multicore MapReduce library.