Computer Systems Performance Analysis
and Benchmarking
Course Homepage 37-235

This page will contain all information about the course such as: time, place, lecture notes or information on homework/excercises and class projects. It will be updated continually as more information becomes available.

News Topics:

• 30.01.03: Exam date: Not defined yet.
• 30.01.03: Details on the 2003 exam.
• 10.08.02: First Lecture: Thursday 24.10.02 9:15-11:00, RZ F21.
• Lecture Announcement

Lecturer / Projects:

Christian Kurmann, Laboratory for Computersystems,
ETH Zürich / RZ H16, kurmann@inf.ethz.ch

Lecture Notes and Working Assignments:

• Lectures Notes
• Problemsets
• Former Lectures Notes of WS2001
• Literature: The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling, by Raj Jain , John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471503363

Student Projects and Working Groups:

• Student project archive and working groups for the current projects.

Requirements for credit/Testatbedingungen:

• Participation in 2/3 of the discussions in Uebungsstunden.
• Reasonable effort in the project.

Exam:

• Details on the 2003 exam.
• 15 minute oral exam (can be extended to 25min) about:
  • Contents of the book chapters covered
  • Results of your project
  • English or German - pick your favorite language

Projects due:

• 10 days before the exam.

Contents/Locations/Time:

• Entry in the course catalog (37-235)
• Entry in the lecture schedules of WS2001/2002 (37-235 V/U/P)

Departement Informatik der ETH Zürich
Feb 2003
Christian Kurmann, < kurmann@inf.ethz.ch >
former by Thomas M. Stricker, < tomstr@acm.org >