Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Presentation

   1. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Worm Effects on the Internet Routing Infrastructure

      • David M. Nicol, Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu

      Pages 1-10

3. Tools for Measuring, Benchmarking, and Online Control

   1. A Low-Cost Infrastructure for High Precision High Volume Performance Measurements of Web Clusters

      • Kai-Steffen Jens Hielscher, Reinhard German

      Pages 11-28

   2. MIBA: A Micro-Benchmark Suite for Evaluating InfiniBand Architecture Implementations

      • B. Chandrasekaran, Pete Wyckoff, Dhabaleswar K. Panda

      Pages 29-46

   3. WebAppLoader : A Simulation Tool Set for Evaluating Web Application Performance

      • Katinka Wolter, Kristian Kasprowicz

      Pages 47-62

   4. A Comprehensive Toolset for Workload Characterization, Performance Modeling, and Online Control

      • Li Zhang, Zhen Liu, Anton Riabov, Monty Schulman, Cathy Xia, Fan Zhang

      Pages 63-77

4. Tools for Evaluation of Stochastic Models

   1. Logical and Stochastic Modeling with Smart

      • G. Ciardo, R. L. Jones, A. S. Miner, R. Siminiceanu

      Pages 78-97

   2. The Peps Software Tool

      • Anne Benoit, Leonardo Brenner, Paulo Fernandes, Brigitte Plateau, William J. Stewart

      Pages 98-115

   3. The Modest Modeling Tool and Its Implementation

      • Henrik Bohnenkamp, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Ric Klaren

      Pages 116-133

5. Queueing Models

   1. An M/G/1 Queuing System with Multiple Vacations to Assess the Performance of a Simplified Deficit Round Robin Model

      • L. Lenzini, B. Meini, E. Mingozzi, G. Stea

      Pages 134-151

   2. Queueing Models with Maxima of Service Times

      • Peter Harrison, Soraya Zertal

      Pages 152-168

   3. Heuristic Optimization of Scheduling and Allocation for Distributed Systems with Soft Deadlines

      • Tao Zheng, Murray Woodside

      Pages 169-181

6. Markovian Arrival Processes and Phase-Type Distributions

   1. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Representing General Distributions by Coxians

      • Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter

      Pages 182-199

   2. A Closed-Form Solution for Mapping General Distributions to Minimal PH Distributions

      • Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter

      Pages 200-217

   3. An EM-Algorithm for MAP Fitting from Real Traffic Data

      • Peter Buchholz

      Pages 218-236

   4. The Correlation Region of Second-Order MAPs with Application to Queueing Network Decomposition

      • Armin Heindl, Ken Mitchell, Appie van de Liefvoort

      Pages 237-254

7. Supporting Model-Based Design of Systems

   1. EvalVid – A Framework for Video Transmission and Quality Evaluation

      • Jirka Klaue, Berthold Rathke, Adam Wolisz

      Pages 255-272

   2. A Class-Based Least-Recently Used Caching Algorithm for World-Wide Web Proxies

      • Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, Ramin Sadre

      Pages 273-290

   3. Performance Analysis of a Software Design Using the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time

      • Jing Xu, Murray Woodside, Dorina Petriu

      Pages 291-307

8. Back Matter

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We are pleased to present the proceedings of Performance TOOLS 2003, the 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation. The series of TOOLS conferences has provided a forum for our community of performance engineers with all their diverse interests. TOOLS 2003, held in Urbana, Illinois during September 2–5, 2003, was the most recent meeting of the series, which in the past has been held in the following cities: 1984 Paris 1992 Edinburgh 2000 Chicago 1985 Sophia-Antipolis 1994 Vienna 2002 London 1987 Paris 1995 Heidelberg 2003 Urbana 1988 Palma 1997 Saint Malo 1991 Turin 1998 Palma TheproceedingsoftheTOOLSconferenceshavebeenpublishedbySpringer- Verlag in its LNCS series since 1994. TOOLS2003wasthesecondconferenceintheseriestobeheldinthestateof Illinois, USA. It was one of four component conferences that met together under the umbrella of the 2003 Illinois Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems. Other conferences held inconjunctionwithTOOLS2003werethe10thInternationalWorkshoponPetri Nets and Performance Models (PNPM 2003), the International Conference on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains (NSMC 2003), and the 6th Inter- tional Workshop on Performability Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems (PMCCS-6). The format allowed for a number of joint components in the programs: the three keynote speakers, the tool demonstrations, the tutorials, and the social events were all shared by the participants of the multiconference. Moreover, the PNPM, TOOLS, and NSMC tracks of the multiconference ran concurrently, so that attendees could choose to attend whichever sessions of those component conferences they wished.

• Cluster
• Performance
• Simulation
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• algorithms
• architecture
• communication systems performance
• computer network performance
• computer performance
• distributed systems
• hardware performance
• optimization
• performance evaluation
• stochastic models
• systems performance

• Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  Peter Kemper

• Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

  William H. Sanders

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