Methods and Metrics for Fair Server Assessment under Real-Time Financial Workloads

Giorgis Georgakoudis, Charles J. Gillan, Ahmed Sayed, Ivor Spence, Richard Faloon, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

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Abstract

We present a rigorous methodology and new metrics for fair comparison of server and microserver platforms. Deploying our methodology and metrics, we compare a microserver with ARM cores against two servers with ×86 cores running the same real-time financial analytics workload. We define workload-specific but platform-independent performance metrics for platform comparison, targeting both datacenter operators and end users. Our methodology establishes that a server based on the Xeon Phi co-processor delivers the highest performance and energy efficiency. However, by scaling out energy-efficient microservers, we achieve competitive or better energy efficiency than a power-equivalent server with two Sandy Bridge sockets, despite the microserver's slower cores. Using a new iso-QoS metric, we find that the ARM microserver scales enough to meet market throughput demand, that is, a 100% QoS in terms of timely option pricing, with as little as 55% of the energy consumed by the Sandy Bridge server.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)916-928
Number of pages13
JournalConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Volume28
Issue number3
Early online date13 Oct 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Mar 2016

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