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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is an introduction to analytical performance modeling for computer systems, i.e., writing equations to describe their performance behavior. It is accessible to readers who have taken college-level courses in calculus and probability, networking, and operating systems.
This is not a training manual for becoming an expert performance analyst. Rather, the objective is to help the reader construct simple models for analyzing and understanding the systems that they are interested in.
Describing a complicated system abstractly with mathematical equations requires a careful choice of assumptions and approximations. They make the model tractable, but they must not remove essential characteristics of the system, nor introduce spurious properties.
To help the reader understand the choices and their implications, this book discusses the analytical models for 40 research papers. These papers cover a broad range of topics: GPUs and disks, routers and crawling, databases and multimedia, worms and wireless, multicore and cloud, security and energy, etc. An appendix provides many questions for readers to exercise their understanding of the models in these papers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Analytical Performance Modeling for Computer Systems, Third Edition
Authors: Y. C. Tay
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01803-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0), eBColl Synthesis Collection 5, eBColl Synthesis Collection 8
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-00675-3Published: 23 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-01803-9Published: 01 June 2022
Series ISSN: 1932-1228
Series E-ISSN: 1932-1686
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XVI, 156