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This paper presents a workload characterization for workstations, servers and WWW servers. Twelve data sets built from standard UNIX tools and from access.log files are analyzed with three different time scales. We demonstrate that the workload of these resources is statistically self-similar in the periods of irregular activity.
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Richard, O., Cappello, F. (1998). On the self-similar nature of workstations and WWW servers workload. In: Pritchard, D., Reeve, J. (eds) Euro-Par’98 Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1470. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057855
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