CS457 - System Performance Evaluation

Further Reading

General

• Daniel A. Menace, Virgilio A. F. Almeida, Lawrence W. Dowdy. Performance by Design. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, 2004.

Measurement

Interesting Examples of Measurement

• David K. Gifford & Nathan Glasser. Remote pipes and procedures for efficient distributed communication. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems: 6(3), 258 - 283, 1988. pdf
• Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andre Barroso. Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'07), 2007. pdf
• Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson. Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'07), 2007. html

Experimental Design and Analysis

Experimental Design

• Peter W. M. John. Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments. Macmillan: New York, 1971.

Statistics

• Phillip Good. Permutation Tests: A Practical Guide to Resampling Methods for Testing Hypotheses. Springer: New York, 1995.
• Eric W, Noreen. Computer Intensive Methods for Testing Hypotheses: An Introduction. Wily-Interscience: New York, 1989.
• John W. Tukey. Exploratory data analysis.

Software (free or almost free)

• Datadesk student edition
• Open Office Spreadsheet
• Quail: I have never used it but we should try supporting our own.
• The R programming language

Queueing Theory

Queueing Networks

Simulation

Random Numbers

1. Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley: Reading, 1981. Chapter 3.

Examples

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