Beschreibung:
Lizy Kurian John, Lieven Eeckhout
Following a general overview of the important performance analysis techniques, this book surveys contemporary benchmark suites for specific areas such as Java, embedded systems, CPUs, and Web servers. Subsequent chapters explain how to choose appropriate averages for reporting metrics and provide a detailed treatment of statistical methods, including a summary of statistics, how to apply statistical sampling for simulation, how to apply SimPoint, and a comprehensive overview of statistical simulation. The discussion then turns to benchmark subsetting methodologies and the fundamentals of analytical modeling, including queuing models and Petri nets. Three chapters devoted to hardware performance counters conclude the book.
Introduction and Overview. Performance Modeling and Measurement Techniques. Benchmarks. Aggregating Performance Metrics Over a Benchmark Suite. Statistical Techniques for Computer Performance Analysis. Statistical Sampling for Processor and Cache Simulation. SimPoint: Picking Representative Samples to Guide Simulation. Statistical Simulation. Benchmark Selection. Introduction to Analytical Models. Performance Monitoring Hardware and the Pentium 4 Processor. Performance Monitoring on the POWER5¿ Microprocessor. Performance Monitoring in the itanium® Processor Family. Index.