The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis

Jain, R. (1991). The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling. Wiley.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1991

Link

https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/books/perfbook.htm

Cited from

computer_science, systems_cybernetics

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Interference and Contention
  • The framework compresses domain-specific contention problems into a structured diagnostic: identify the shared resource, the competing demands, the current arbitration mechanism, the contention metric (latency, throughput, quality, jitter), and candidate solutions, a diagnostic discipline Jain (1991) systematizes in his canonical guide to performance analysis.

    This sourceCanonical performance-analysis reference: systematizes the diagnostic pipeline of resource characterization, demand profiling, arbitration audit, and cost measurement for contention problems.

• Intrinsic Ceiling vs Input
  • the throughput-ceiling analysis from software performance was adopted in supply-chain operations research and manufacturing-process engineering.

    This sourceTreats throughput-ceiling (saturation) analysis of system performance and the resources required to approach the asymptote, with bottleneck/asymptote reasoning later carried into operations research.

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