Bill Dimm [cluster-text.com] writes:
Google
announced PerfKit Benchmarker and Perfkit Explorer [blogspot.com], which are open source tools they developed with help from over 30 researchers, cloud service providers, and other corporations. The Benchmarker measures the end to end time to provision resources in the cloud, in addition to reporting on the most standard metrics of peak performance. You'll now have a way to easily benchmark across cloud platforms, while getting a transparent view of application throughput, latency, variance, and overhead. The Explorer tool provides visualization of the results.
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