COE 587 Performance Evaluation & Analysis

 CSE 642 Computer System Performance 

 Semester 152 (Spring 2015)

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Course Syllabus:

Click here for course syllabus.

Exam Dates:

Exam dates are:

• Midterm: TBD
• Final exam: 7:00 PM  May 15, 2016  SUNDAY - 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
• 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, and 3 of textbook. Some slides summarizing chapters 5 and 6 (partial).

    - An excellent explanation for the principle component analysis - measurements point of view.

    - 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

Project Material:

• Course projects and deliverables are discussed and specified in class (TBA).

Assignments:

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

Quizzes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Jan26th, 2016 ?

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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