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Workload modeling for computer systems performance evaluation /

Reliable performance evaluations require the use of representative workloads. This is no easy task since modern computer systems and their workloads are complex, with many interrelated attributes and complicated structures. Experts often use sophisticated mathematics to analyze and describe workload...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feitelson, Dror G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Electronic digital computers > Evaluation.
Electronic digital computers > Workload > Mathematical models.
COMPUTERS / General.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Workload data
  • 3. Statistical distributions
  • 4. Fitting distributions to data
  • 5. Heavy tails
  • 6. Correlations in workloads
  • 7. Self-similarity and long-range dependence
  • 8. Hierarchical generative models
  • 9. Case studies
  • 10. Summary and outlook.