IBM Research © 2009 IBM Corporation 2 Executive Summary Scale-up approach still matters for ultimate scalability –The performance of server-side applications is becoming increasingly important as more applications exploit the Web application model in the Web 2.0 era Our Main Contribution –A novel approach to boost Web application performance with what we call Zero Copy Data Transfer that reduces redundant memory copying and context switch overhead between user space and kernel space Achievements 126% performance improvement with micro-benchmarks 31% performance improvement for standard Web benchmark, SPECweb2005
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