Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools

Techniques and tools for reliability and performance evaluation: Problems and perspectives.- Experimental analysis of parallel systems: Techniques and open problems.- Performance experiences of the Barcelona Olympic games computer system.- Performance tools on intel scalable high performance computing systems.- Modelling aspects of model-based dynamic QoS management by the Performability Manager.- Waiting time distributions for processor sharing queues with state-dependent arrival and service rates.- Queueing models of parallel applications: The Glamis methodology.- Automatic scalability analysis of parallel programs based on modeling techniques.- Simulation of ATM computer networks with CLASS.- NetSim - A tool for modeling the performance of circuit switched multicomputer networks.- ATMSWSIM An efficient, portable and expandable ATM SWitch SIMulator tool.- A model for performance estimation in a multistreamed superscalar processor.- Accelerating the evaluation of parallel program performance models using distributed simulation.- An algorithm for off-line detection of phases in execution profiles.- Experiences on SIMD massively parallel GSPN analysis.- PAPS - The parallel program performance prediction toolset.- qcomp: A tool for assessing online transaction processing scalability.- QPN-Tool for qualitative and quantitative analysis of queueing Petri nets.- Software architecture of the EPOCA integrated environment.- The PEPA workbench: A tool to support a process algebra-based approach to performance modelling.- On the accuracy of memory reference models.- Automatically estimating network contention of parallel programs.- Modelling of communication contention in multiprocessors.- Using Interval Timed Coloured Petri Nets to calculate performance bounds.- Analyzing PICL trace data with MEDEA.