COE 587 Performance Evaluation & Analysis

 CSE 642 Computer System Performance 

 Semester 131 (Fall 2013)

• Midterm exam (closed book) - Tuesday Nov 5th - 2:30-4:30; No class Tuesday Nov 5th at 20:00 pm.

• Office hours: UT 10:00-10:45 and 12:30-13:30. Times other than those listed are available by appointment – call at x1724 or email me at ashraf@kfupm.edu.sa.

Course Syllabus:

Click here for course syllabus.

Exam Dates:

Exam dates are:

• Midterm: Tuesday Nov 5th, 2013 - Rm 22- (lab)
• Final exam: Mon Mon 30th, 2013 at 7:00 PM (tentative - scheduled by registrar).

Lecture Notes:

The textbook's slides can be found at the following link: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/books/perf_sli.htm

Students are responsible for the material in the book and that in the handouts. The class notes are just "notes"; they may not cover all required material. The book is the reference for the required material. Be advised that the notes below are subject to change.

• Part I: An Overview of Performance Evaluation
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • Chapter 3: Selection of Techniques and Metrics
• Part II: Measurement Techniques and Tools
  • Chapter 4: Types of Workloads   
  • Chapter 5: The Art of Workload Selection
  • Chapter 6: Workload Characterization Techniques
  • Chapter 10: The Art of Data Presentation
  • Chapter 11: Ratio Games
  • Chapter 12: Summarizing Measured Data
• Part III: Probability Theory and Statistics
  • Chapter 13: Comparing Systems Using Sample Data
  • Chapter 14: Simple Linear Regression
  • Chapter 15: Other Regression Models
• Part IV: Experimental Design and Analysis 
  • Chapter 16: Introduction to Experimental Design
• Chapter 17: 2^k Factorial Designs
• Chapter 18: 2^kr Factorial Designs with Replications
• Chapter 19: 2^{k-p} Fractional Factorial Designs
• Chapter 20: One Factor Experiments
• Chapter 21: Two Factors Full Factorial Design without Replications
• Part V: Simulation
• Chapter 24: Introduction to Simulation
• Chapter 25: Analysis of Simulation Results
• Chapter 28: Random-Variate Generation - Author's slides (needed for quiz07)
• Chapter 29: Commonly Used Distributions (reference material)
• Part VI: Queueing Networks
• Chapter 30: Introduction to Queueing Theory

•  Refer to instructor summary slides of chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 of textbook.

    - A tool for probability distributions and quantiles

    - Area under the unit normal distribution: Table A.1

     - Tables for calculating normal quantiles: Table A.2 and Table A.3. For t-variate quantiles: Table A.4.

  - Matlab code for Example 6.1

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Project Material:

• Course projects and deliverables are discussed and specified in class (TBA).
• Project Progress Schedule and Material - updated weekly.

Exam Dates:

•  TBD

Assignments:

• Reading Assignment #1: Reach chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5.

• Assignment #1: Sept 9th, 2013 - Sept 24th, 2013 - solution key

• Assignment #2: Sept 24th, 2013 - Oct 22th, 2013 - solution key.

• Assignment #3:  Oct 28th, 2013 - Nov 3rd, 2013 - solution key.

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Quizzes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Sept 12th, 2013 - Due Sept 17th, 2013 - solution key.
• Quiz02: Sept 30th, 2013 - Due Oct 8th, 2013, 2013 - solution key.
• Quiz03:
• Midterm:
• Quiz04:

Check Your Status:

•  To check your marks for quizzes and homework as well as yours exams, bonus, etc click here

Matlab Tutorial Material:

Basic information:

• University of Utah site - Matlab
• Indiana University - Getting Started with Matlab

More detailed material at:

• University of Florida - Matlab Summary and Tutorial
• Michigan Technological University - A practical Introduction to Matlab

The MathWorks website - The makers of Matlab

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