Wrekavoc is an heterogeneity emulator. In the context of the evaluation of distributed applications and systems, experimenters use it to define the heterogeneity of a given platform (typically a cluster) by degrading CPU, network or memory capabilities of each node composing the platform. Wrekavoc is freely available, and runs on Linux.

Download

• Wrekavoc download page on INRIA GForge
• Documentation

Publications

Main publication (use it to refer to Wrekavoc)

• Louis-Claude Canon, Olivier Dubuisson, Jens Gustedt and Emmanuel Jeannot.
  Defining and Controlling the Heterogeneity of a Cluster: the Wrekavoc Tool
  Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 83, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 786-802.
  HAL - PDF (research report) - Bibtex

  @article{Canon:2010:DCH:1750579.1750614,
   author = {Canon, Louis-Claude and Dubuisson, Olivier and Gustedt, Jens and Jeannot, Emmanuel},
   title = {Defining and controlling the heterogeneity of a cluster: The Wrekavoc tool},
   journal = {J. Syst. Softw.},
   volume = {83},
   issue = {5},
   month = {May},
   year = {2010},
   issn = {0164-1212},
   pages = {786--802},
   numpages = {17},
   doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.11.734},
   publisher = {Elsevier Science Inc.},
   address = {New York, NY, USA},
  }

Other publications

• Tomasz Buchert, Lucas Nussbaum and Jens Gustedt. Methods for Emulation of Multi-Core CPU Performance
  INRIA Research Report 7450. November 2010
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  @techreport{BUCHERT:2010:INRIA-00535534:1,
      title = { {M}ethods for {E}mulation of {M}ulti-{C}ore {CPU} {P}erformance},
      author = {{B}uchert, {T}omasz and {N}ussbaum, {L}ucas and {G}ustedt, {J}ens},
      type = {Research Report},
      institution = {INRIA},
      number = {{RR}-7450},
      month = {11},
      year = {2010},
  }

• Tomasz Buchert, Lucas Nussbaum and Jens Gustedt. Accurate emulation of CPU performance
  8th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar'2010)
  HAL - PDF (research report) - Bibtex

  @InProceedings{heteropar-fracas,
     author = "Tomasz Buchert and Lucas Nussbaum and Jens Gustedt",
     title = { Accurate emulation of CPU performance },
     booktitle = {8th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar'2010)},
     address = "Ischia, Italy",
     year = "2010"
  }

• Olivier Dubuisson, Jens Gustedt and Emmanuel Jeannot. Validating Wrekavoc: A tool for heterogeneity emulation
  Heterogenity in Computing Workshop (HCW 09) in International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium - IPDPS 2009
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  @inproceedings{DUBUISSON:2009:INRIA-00435609:1,
      title = { {V}alidating {W}rekavoc: {A} tool for heterogeneity emulation},
      author = {{D}ubuisson, {O}livier and {G}ustedt, {J}ens and {J}eannot, {E}mmanuel},
      booktitle = {{H}eterogenity in {C}omputing {W}orkshop ({HCW} 09) in {I}nternational {P}arallel and {D}istributed {P}rocessing {S}ymposium - {IPDPS} 2009 {IEEE} {I}nternational {S}ymposium on {P}arallel \& {D}istributed {P}rocessing, 2009.},
      address = {{R}ome {I}taly },
      year = {2009},
  }
  

• Olivier Dubuisson, Jens Gustedt, and Emmanuel Jeannot. Multi-Site Emulation using Wrekavoc: Validating Distributed Algorithms and Applications
  INRIA Research Report 6696. October 2008
  HAL - PDF - Bibtex

  @techreport{DUBUISSON:2008:INRIA-00331627:1,
      URL = {http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00331627/en/},
      title = { {M}ulti-{S}ite {E}mulation using {W}rekavoc: {V}alidating {D}istributed {A}lgorithms and {A}pplications},
      author = {{D}ubuisson, {O}livier and {G}ustedt, {J}ens and {J}eannot, {E}mmanuel},
      type = {{R}esearch {R}eport},
      institution = {INRIA},
      number = {{RR}-6696},
      year = {2008},
  }
  

• Louis-Claude Canon and Emmanuel Jeannot. Wrekavoc: a Tool for Emulating Heterogeneity
  15th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 06), April 2006
  PDF - Bibtex

  @inproceedings{
      title = {Wrekavoc: a Tool for Emulating Heterogeneity},
      author = {Louis-Claude Canon and Emmanuel Jeannot},
      year = {2008},
      booktitle = {{H}eterogenity in {C}omputing {W}orkshop ({HCW} 06) in {I}nternational {P}arallel and {D}istributed {P}rocessing {S}ymposium - {IPDPS} 2006 {IEEE} {I}nternational {S}ymposium on {P}arallel \& {D}istributed {P}rocessing, 2006.},
      address = { Island of Rhodes, Greece},
      year = {2006},
  }
  

Contact

The original developer of Wrekavoc is Emmanuel Jeannot. Any question, remark or suggestion should now be sent to Lucas Nussbaum (lucas.nussbaum@loria.fr), who is now maintaining Wrekavoc.

Other contributors to Wrekavoc by order of appearance: Jens Gustedt, Louis-Claude Canon, Olivier Dubuisson and Tomasz Buchert.