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Computer Systems Performance Analysis
and Benchmarking
Lecture Notes 37-235

The slides for the lecture notes of the course "Computer Systems Performance Analysis and Benchmarking" of the ETH CS Program are available in Acrobat-pdf format.

Lectures:

Slides are 1 slide per page / Thumbnails are 4 slides per page.

 # Date Topic Slides
Thumbnails		 Papers
 1 24.10.2002 Why is Performance Analysis
an Art, Common Mistakes		 vorl01-02.pdf
vorl01-02.tn.pdf		 ACM-tale- of-2-chips.pdf
CT-two-null- null.pdf
ati-and-ethics.pdf
 2 31.10.2002 Systematic Approach, Evaluation
Techniques, Workloads		 vorl02-02.pdf
vorl02-02.tn.pdf		  
 3 07.11.2002 Popular [non]-benchmarks
Workload Selection		 vorl03-02.pdf
vorl03-02.tn.pdf		  
 4 14.11.2002 Statistical basics, Mean, Mode
Median, Clustering		 vorl04-02.pdf
vorl04-02.tn.pdf		  
 5 21.11.2002 Confidence analysis, Regression vorl05-02.pdf
vorl05-02.tn.pdf		  
 6 28.11.2002 Introduction of projects
vorl06-02.pdf
vorl06-02.tn.pdf		  
 7 05.12.2002 Workload characterization, Principle
component analysis, Monitoring		 vorl07-02.pdf
vorl07-02.tn.pdf		  
 8 12.12.2002 Intro experimental design,
2k-, 2kr-Factorial designs		 vorl08-02.pdf
vorl08-02.tn.pdf		  
 9 19.12.2002 2(k-p)-Reduced factorial design
One factor design		 vorl09-02.pdf
vorl09-02.tn.pdf		  
10 09.01.2003 Two factor design
Factorial design summary		 vorl10-02.pdf
vorl10-02.tn.pdf		  
11 16.01.2003 Simulation, Traces,
Validation/Verification 		vorl11-02.pdf
vorl11-02.tn.pdf		  
12 23.01.2003 Self scaling benchmarks
(Discussion of research papers)		 vorl12-02.pdf
vorl12-02.tn.pdf		 selfscale.pdf
13 30.01.2003 Memory Systems Benchmarking, Accurate Performance Evaluation, Modelling and Prediction memperf.pdf
super.pdf
memperf.tn.pdf
super.tn.pdf 		ECT - memperf
14 06.02.2003 Graphical representations vorl14-02.pdf
vorl14-02.tn.pdf		  

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