Patent ID: 7580905

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, by a workload analyzer computing system, whether a workload executed or being executed by a platform resembles a reference workload, and said determining comprising: correlating each of a plurality of observed performance values to each of a corresponding plurality of reference performance values of the reference workload to produce a correlation metric representing the degree of overall statistical correlation between the plurality of observed performance values and the plurality of reference performance values; and determining that the workload resembles the reference workload if the correlation metric exceeds a pre-determined threshold; in response to determining that the workload resembles the reference workload, performing, by the workload analyzer computing system, a selected one of selecting, by the workload analyzer computing system, a set of one or more configuration parameter values pre-selected for the platform to execute the resembled reference workload and configuring the workload analyzer computing system using the set of one or more configuration parameter values, and providing, by the workload analyzer computing system, information about the determined resembled reference workload to facilitate the selection of the set of one or more configuration parameter values pre-selected for the platform to execute the determined resembled reference workload.