Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks: Spec International Performance Evaluation Workshop, Sipew 2008, Darmstadt, Germany, June 27-28, 2008, Proceedings

by Kounev, Samuel; Gorton, Ian; Sachs, Kai

• ISBN13: 9783540698135
• ISBN10: 3540698132
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-03
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, SIPEW 2008, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in June 2008 .The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected out of 39 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on models for software performance engineering; benchmarks and workload characterization; Web services and service-oriented architectures; power and performance; and profiling, monitoring and optimization.

Table of Contents

Scheduling for Server Farms: Approaches and Open Problems	p. 1
SAP Standard Application Benchmarks - IT Benchmarks with a Business Focus	p. 4
The Relationship of Performance Models to Data	p. 9
Extracting Response Times from Fluid Analysis of Performance Models	p. 29
Approximate Solution of a PEPA Model of a Key Distribution Centre	p. 44
A Model Transformation from the Palladio Component Model to Layered Queueing Networks	p. 58
Model-Driven Generation of Performance Prototypes	p. 79
SCALASCA Parallel Performance Analyses of SPEC MPI2007 Applications	p. 99
Generating Probabilistic and Intensity-Varying Workload for Web-Based Software Systems	p. 124
Comparison of the SPEC CPU Benchmarks with 499 Other Workloads Using Hardware Counters	p. 144
Tuning Topology Generators Using Spectral Distributions	p. 154
Performance, Benchmarking and Sizing in Developing Highly Scalable Enterprise Software	p. 174
Phase-Type Approximations for Message Transmission Times in Web Services Reliable Messaging	p. 191
A Framework for Simulation Models of Service-Oriented Architectures	p. 208
Model-Driven Performability Analysis of Composite Web Services	p. 228
Dynamic Server Allocation for Power and Performance	p. 247
Workload Characterization of the SPECpowerössj2008 Benchmark	p. 262
Trace-Context Sensitive Performance Profiling for Enterprise Software Applications	p. 283
Performance Monitoring and Analysis of a Large Online Transaction Processing System	p. 303
Speeding up STL Set/Map Usage in C++ Applications	p. 314
Author Index	p. 323
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