CS457 - System Performance Evaluation - Winter 2010

Administrative Details

Instructor

Bill Cowan, [wW][mM][cC][oO][wW][aA][nN]@cgl.uwaterloo.ca, DC2111, x34527.

Teaching Assistants

• Cong Guo
• Wei Wang
• Cherry Zhang

Location and Times of Lectures

• MC2035
• 13.30-14.20: Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Lecture Notes

Authoritative web addresses

• Bill Cowan's CS457 material
• Permanent CS457 website (Needs work in a bad way.)

Newsgroup

• uw.cs.cs457

E-mail address

• cs457@cgl.uwaterloo.ca

Textbook

• Raj Jain. The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis. Wiley: New York, 1991.

More Detailed Administrative Information

Assignments & Examinations

Printed Notes

Marking Scheme

• 50% assignments.
• 15% midterm examination.
• 35% final examination.

Students must have a passing average on the combined examinations to pass the course. Here is my algorithm for calculating marks.

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• Bill Cowan's CS457 page
• Bill Cowan's teaching page
• Bill Cowan's home page