Supplementary Class Materials

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Class Exercises

• Solutions to all of the Class Problem sets can be downloaded as a PDF file.
  
  

Scalability Models

• EXCEL spreadsheet models for estimating both processor (p) and user (N) scalability.
  
  

PDQ Analyzer

• Download PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick).
  
  
• Modeling workload priorities with a "shadow" server.
  1. PDQ model with virtual server subroutine.
     
     
  2. PDQ Report1 without priority.
     
     
  3. PDQ Report2 with priorities.
     
     
  
  
  

Alumni Papers

• Traffic Generation (Notes by Jim Brady, 2004)
  
  
• Virtualization and CPU Wait Times in a Linux Guest Environment (by Jim Brady, 2005)
  
  
• A Conditional Probability Model for Vertical Multithreaded Architectures (by Bob Lane, 2007)
  
  

Performance Management Standards

• ARM (Application Response Measurement)
  
  
• InfiniBand interconnect architecture for servers and storage.
  
  
• SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
  
  
• SPC (Storage Performance Council)
  
  
• UMA (Universal Measurement Architecture)
  
  
• Implementing Performance Flight Recorders in a Distributed Computing Environment with A+UMA
  by Neil Gunther and Leon Traister, IEEE TCOS, (7)3, 1995. (Overview of the UMA implementation)
  
  

Internet Modeling Papers

• LANs (Bellcore draft 1993)
  
  
• Routing (Associated buffer-sizing paper 1994)
  
  
• WANs (LBL paper 1995)
  
  
• WWW (Boston Univ. 1997)
  
  

Professional Organizations

• CMG Conference
  
  
• IETF Working Groups
  
  
• SIGCOMM
  
  
• SIGMETRICS
  
  
• SPEC Benchmarks
  
  
• TPC Benchmarks
  
  

Benchmarks

• TPC-C benchmark specification
  
  

Performance Pulse

• The latest performance ideas?
  
  

Performance Jobs

• Thinking about a change?