Abstract: Cloud computing benchmarking is performed wherein the resource usage of a measuring benchmarking application is compensated for as to not impact measurement. The measurements are of a cloud instance's benchmarking indicia which may include performance, functions and characteristics of the cloud instance. The benchmarking indicia use scalable measures as to allow the use of arithmetic operations such as those used in statistical functions. The benchmarking application is dispatched along with a configuration file and is controlled from a central controller to specified cloud instances. The dispatched benchmarking application takes measurements of the cloud instance based on the configuration file. The benchmarking application then stores the measurements in a results file for return back to the central controller. At the central controller, results files from one or more benchmarking applications are stored in a data store for comparative and statistical analysis.

Abstract: Benchmarking of a cloud computing instance is performed by a benchmarking application via direct system calls and locally stored measures to lower impact on benchmarking. Furthermore, stored measures are uploaded to a server when benchmarking is not being performed, so as not to have the uploading impact measurement. The benchmarking is performed via an application profile comprising a plurality of benchmark indicia. Benchmarking indicia may be specific to 64-bit operating systems. Benchmarking indicia may be variable, in which a thread pool in the benchmarking application increases or decreases active threads based on the variance of the benchmarking indicia. In this way, a benchmarking application can simulate an application load not only by benchmarking indicia, but also by time.

Abstract: Cloud computing benchmarking is performed wherein the resource usage of a measuring benchmarking application is compensated for as to not impact measurement. The measurements are of a cloud instance's benchmarking indicia which may include performance, functions and characteristics of the cloud instance. The benchmarking indicia use scalable measures as to allow the use of arithmetic operations such as those used in statistical functions. The benchmarking application is dispatched along with a configuration file and is controlled from a central controller to specified cloud instances. The dispatched benchmarking application takes measurements of the cloud instance based on the configuration file. The benchmarking application then stores the measurements in a results file for return back to the central controller. At the central controller, results files from one or more benchmarking applications are stored in a data store for comparative and statistical analysis.