Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction

Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction

Author: Paul Fortier

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2003-07-09

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 0080502601

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Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction bridges the gap from academic to professional analysis of computer performance.This book makes analytic, simulation and instrumentation based modeling and performance evaluation of computer systems components understandable to a wide audience of computer systems designers, developers, administrators, managers and users. The book assumes familiarity with computer systems architecture, computer systems software, computer networks and mathematics including calculus and linear algebra.·Fills the void between engineering practice and the academic domain's treatment of computer systems performance evaluation and assessment·Provides a single source where the professional or student can learn how to perform computer systems engineering tradeoff analysis·Allows managers to realize cost effective yet optimal computer systems tuned to a specific application


Performance Evaluation, Prediction and Visualization of Parallel Systems

Performance Evaluation, Prediction and Visualization of Parallel Systems

Author: Xingfu Wu

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1461551471

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Performance Evaluation, Prediction and Visualization in Parallel Systems presents a comprehensive and systematic discussion of theoretics, methods, techniques and tools for performance evaluation, prediction and visualization of parallel systems. Chapter 1 gives a short overview of performance degradation of parallel systems, and presents a general discussion on the importance of performance evaluation, prediction and visualization of parallel systems. Chapter 2 analyzes and defines several kinds of serial and parallel runtime, points out some of the weaknesses of parallel speedup metrics, and discusses how to improve and generalize them. Chapter 3 describes formal definitions of scalability, addresses the basic metrics affecting the scalability of parallel systems, discusses scalability of parallel systems from three aspects: parallel architecture, parallel algorithm and parallel algorithm-architecture combinations, and analyzes the relations of scalability and speedup. Chapter 4 discusses the methodology of performance measurement, describes the benchmark- oriented performance test and analysis and how to measure speedup and scalability in practice. Chapter 5 analyzes the difficulties in performance prediction, discusses application-oriented and architecture-oriented performance prediction and how to predict speedup and scalability in practice. Chapter 6 discusses performance visualization techniques and tools for parallel systems from three stages: performance data collection, performance data filtering and performance data visualization, and classifies the existing performance visualization tools. Chapter 7 describes parallel compiling-based, search-based and knowledge-based performance debugging, which assists programmers to optimize the strategy or algorithm in their parallel programs, and presents visual programming-based performance debugging to help programmers identify the location and cause of the performance problem. It also provides concrete suggestions on how to modify their parallel program to improve the performance. Chapter 8 gives an overview of current interconnection networks for parallel systems, analyzes the scalability of interconnection networks, and discusses how to measure and improve network performances. Performance Evaluation, Prediction and Visualization in Parallel Systems serves as an excellent reference for researchers, and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.


Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems

Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems

Author: Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1439849935

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This book is written for computer engineers and scientists active in the development of software and hardware systems. It supplies the understanding and tools needed to effectively evaluate the performance of individual computer and communication systems. It covers the theoretical foundations of the field as


High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

Author: Stephen A. Jarvis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-20

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3319172484

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014 in New Orleans, LA, USA in November 2014. The 12 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers cover topics on performance benchmarking and optimization; performance analysis and prediction; and power, energy and checkpointing.


Measuring Computer Performance

Measuring Computer Performance

Author: David J. Lilja

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-09-08

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521646703

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Sets out the fundamental techniques used in analyzing and understanding the performance of computer systems.


System Modeling and Analysis

System Modeling and Analysis

Author: Hisashi Kobayashi

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 013034835X

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"Kobayashi and Mark present the most up-to-date analytical models, simulation techniques, and computational algorithms useful for performance evaluation of complex systems - including computer systems, communication networks, transportation systems, and manufacturing systems. Broader in scope than other texts, this book provides more in-depth coverage of topics such as computational algorithms and approximations. It appeals to students with a background or interest in a wide range of areas, including systems analysis or telecommunication networks."--Publisher's website.