Course contents and schedule, last update 16.10.1995 (Teemu Kerola) [

Performance Evaluation, Schedule Fall 95

This is the current plan for course contents and schedule. Notice that many chapters in the book are not covered completely. The homeworks are distributed only through WWW. You get homework points (HWP) from homeworks and possibly from computer programs, one HWP from a normal homework, and more from a more difficult one. You get extra points affecting your grade linearly so that about 40% of the maximum HWP will give you 1 point, and about 90% will give you the maximum 10 points.

The final grade is determined from the term exam (max 50 points) and from the above mentioned extra points from homeworks and computer programs (max 10 points). However, you must get at least 25 points from the exam.

General

Lectures: Mon, Wed 14-16 (B450), 11.9-18.10.1995.
Practice sessions: Wed 12-14 (B450), 13.9-18.10.1995.
Term exam: Fri 27.10.1995 16-20 (Domus I)
Class Feedback form (Please submit in October. Thank you)
Office Hours

Week 37 (11-13.9.95)

Practice Probability Theory and Statistics (ks. HW 1)
Chapter 1 [Menasce 94]. Performance and Capacity Planning
Chapter 2. Methods for Capacity Planning
HW 1

Week 38 (18-20.9.95)

Chapter 3. Models for Performance Evaluation
Chapter 4. Intuiutive Solutions for Simple Models
HW 2

Week 39 (25-27.9.95)

Chapter 5. Effective and usable solution methods
HW 3

Week 40 (2-4.10.95)

Chapter 6. Multiclass models and their solutions
HW 4

Week 41 (9-11.95)

Chapter 8. Practical Examples
HW 5

Week 42 (16-18.10.95)

Chapter 9. Parameter estimation
HW 6

Additional literature

[Law 91] A.M. Law, W.D. Kelton, Simulation, Modeling and Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1991 (second edition).
[Weicker 90] R.P. Weicker, An Overview of Common Benchmarks, IEEE Computer, December 1990, pp. 65-75.
[Denning Buzen 78] P.J. Denning, J.P. Buzen, The Operational Analysis of Queueing Network Models, Computing Surveys 10, 3 (September 1978), pp. 225-261.
[Brumfield 81] J. Brumfield, PMVA Purdue Mean Value Analysis Program User's Guide, Dept of CS, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Tech. rep. CSD-TR-383 (April 1981), 24 p.
The program is available for educational purposes from the instructor, and for commercial purposes directly from Jeff Brumfield (brumfield@cs.utexas.edu).
[Lazowska 80] E.D. Lazowska, The Use of Analytic Modelling in System Selection, in Conf. Proc. CMG XI, Dec 2-5, 1980, pp. 63-69.
[Ferrari 78] D. Ferrari, Computer Systems Performance Evaluation, Prentice-Hall, 1978.

Teemu Kerola