Makes performance analysis and queueing theory concepts simple to understand and available to anyone with a background in high school algebra
Presents the practical application of these concepts in the context of modern, distributed, computer system designs
Packed with helpful examples that are based on the author's experience analyzing the performance of large-scale systems over the past 20 years.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
From the reviews:
"The literature of computer performance analysis is generally composed of two groups: heavy theoretical treatises and performance cookbooks. . Surprisingly, this book is exceptionally well balanced between theory and practice . . I strongly recommend this book, both for the novice practitioner and for the experienced performance analyst. Both can extract a vast array of benefits, ranging from understanding the theoretical concepts of performance modeling, to building for themselves a powerful modeling tool . ." (Jair Merlo, Computing Reviews, May, 2005)
Auflage
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Professional/practitioner
Illustrationen
59
176 s/w Abbildungen, 59 s/w Tabellen
176 black & white illustrations, 59 black & white tables
Maße
Höhe: 23.5 cm
Breite: 15.5 cm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-642-05883-7 (9783642058837)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-26860-4
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Neil Gunther, M.Sc., Ph.D. is a leading industry computer performance consultant who founded Performance Dynamics Company (www.perfdynamics.com) in 1994. Prior to that, Dr. Gunther held research and management positions at San Jose State University, JPL/NASA (Voyager and Galileo spacecraft), Xerox PARC research center and Pyramid/Siemens Technology. His performance and capacity planning classes have been presented at such organizations as Boeing, Fedex, Motorola, Stanford University, and Sun Microsystems.
Dr. Gunther is the author of over a hundred papers on computer performance topics, including "HIT-AND-RUN TACTICS ENABLE GUERRILLA CAPACITY PLANNING," published recently in IEEE IT Professional magazine. He has also written the book THE PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE ANALYST (iUniverse.com 2000). In 1996 he was awarded Best Technical Paper at CMG, and in 1997 was nominated for the A.A. Michelson Award. Dr. Gunther is a member of the AMS, ACM, CMG, IEEE, SAGE-AU, SIGMETRICS and USENIX.
Theory of System Performance Analysis.- Time-The Zeroth Performance Metric.- Getting the Jump on Queueing.- Queueing Systems for Computer Systems.- Linux Load Average-Take a Load Off!.- Performance Bounds and Log Jams.- Practice of System Performance Analysis.- Pretty Damn Quick (PDQ)-A Slow Introduction.- Multicomputer Analysis with PDQ.- How to Scale an Elephant with PDQ.- Client/Server Analysis with PDQ.- Web Application Analysis with PDQ.
