Instruction Slides for The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis

These slides are still in development. Some figures are missing from the slides. Not all parts or chapters are ready at this time. You can print two pages per sheet on most postscript printers to produce student handouts from these.

• Part I: An Overview of Performance Evaluation Adobe Acrobat (Chapters 1-3) [72 pages] (224,622 Bytes)
  • Chapter 1: Introduction [33 pages] Adobe Acrobat (113,545 Bytes)
  • Chapter 2: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them [14 pages] Adobe Acrobat (82,572 Bytes)
  • Chapter 3: Selection of Techniques and Metrics [25 pages] Adobe Acrobat (154,952 Bytes)
• Part II: Measurement Techniques and Tools Adobe Acrobat (Chapters 4-8) [153 pages] (466,238 Bytes)
  • Chapter 4: Types of Workloads [29 pages] Adobe Acrobat (166,282 Bytes)
  • Chapter 5: The Art of Workload Selection [18 pages] Adobe Acrobat (95,588 Bytes)
  • Chapter 6: Workload Characterization Techniques [45 pages] Adobe Acrobat (226,740 Bytes)
  • Chapter 7: Monitors [24 pages] Adobe Acrobat (142,174 Bytes)
  • Chapter 8: Program Execution Monitors and Accounting Logs [17 pages] Adobe Acrobat (104,978 Bytes)
• Part III: Probability Theory and Statistics
  • Chapter 13: Comparing Systems Using Sample Data [39 pages] Adobe Acrobat (192,620 Bytes)
• Part IV: Experimental Design and Analysis Adobe Acrobat (805,720 Bytes)
  • Chapter 16: Introduction to Experimental Design. [10 pages] Adobe Acrobat (99,442 Bytes)
  • Chapter 17: $2^k$ Factorial Designs [22 pages] Adobe Acrobat (186,399 Bytes)
  • Chapter 18: $2^kr$ Factorial Designs with Replications [44 pages] Adobe Acrobat (323,832 Bytes)
  • Chapter 19: $2^{k-p}$ Fractional Factorial Designs [27 pages] Adobe Acrobat (189,943 Bytes)
  • Chapter 20: One Factor Experiments [32 pages] Adobe Acrobat (304,274 Bytes)
  • Chapter 21: Two Factors Full Factorial Design without Replications [53 pages] Adobe Acrobat (348,145 Bytes)
  • Chapter 22: Two Factors Full Factorial Design with Replications [24 pages] Adobe Acrobat (299,906 Bytes)
  • Chapter 23: General Full Factorial Designs With $k$ Factors [22 pages] Adobe Acrobat (270,303 Bytes)
• Part V: Simulation Adobe Acrobat (Chapters 24-29) [261 pages] (771,997 Bytes)
  • Chapter 24: Introduction to Simulation [38 pages] Adobe Acrobat (180,861 Bytes)
  • Chapter 25: Analysis of Simulation Results [44 pages] Adobe Acrobat (163,463 Bytes)
  • Chapter 26: Random-Number Generation [64 pages] Adobe Acrobat (317,534 Bytes)
  • Chapter 27: Testing Random-Number Generators [34 pages] Adobe Acrobat (226,132 Bytes)
  • Chapter 28: Random-Variate Generation [19 pages] Adobe Acrobat (157,899 Bytes)
  • Chapter 29: Commonly Used Distributions [62 pages] Adobe Acrobat (287,081 Bytes)
• Part VI: Queueing Networks
  • Chapter 30: Adobe Acrobat (Chapters 30) [34 pages] (160,167 Bytes)
  • Chapter 31-33: Adobe Acrobat[128 pages] (476,193 Bytes)

Last Modified August 12, 2003