View the week-by-week plan of the course, including
exercise definitions.
Go to the course
forum (use this to ask technical questions about exercises, so everyone can
benefit from the questions and answers).
To set a personal meeting with the TA, notify us about problems with milu'im,
etc., send mail to perf@cs.huji.ac.il.
The TA is available for meetings on Tuesdays from 2 to 4 (just before class).
In particular you can use such meetings for advice regarding the parallel job
scheduling simulation exercises.
Textbooks:
- Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance
Analysis, Wiley 1991
Covers nearly all the material of the course, at adequate depth or more.
And also quite a few things we will not cover.
- Avrill M. Law and W. David Kelton, Simulation,
Modeling, and Analysis, McGraw Hill, 3rd ed., 2000
Provides a very good treatment of workload modeling by
fitting distributions, and of analyzing the results of simulations.
They also discuss aspects of simulation that we will not treat
so deeply, such as the creation of good models.
- Neil J. Gunther, The practical Performance
Analyst, Authors Choice Press, 2000.
Mainly about analysis, using methods from queueing theory to physics.
Grading:
The grade in the course will be determined by your work.
There will be 11 exercises, worth 9.1 points each
If you have a good reason for not doing one or more of the exercises
(e.g. you have milu'im for the whole period) you will be excused, and
the grade will be calculated based on the others.
There will be no final exam.
The default grade for a ``very good'' exercise is 95.
A grade of 100 is reserved for whoever does something special extra,
or shows some special insights.
Links:
For more information on various topics, see the
collection of performance evaluation links.
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