Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, SIPEW 2008, Darmstadt, Germany, June 27-28, 2008, Proceedings / [electronic resource] : edited by Samuel Kounev, Ian Gorton. - 1st ed. 2008. - X, 323 p. online resource. - Programming and Software Engineering, 5119 2945-9168 ; . - Programming and Software Engineering, 5119 .

Keynotes -- Scheduling for Server Farms: Approaches and Open Problems -- SAP Standard Application Benchmarks - IT Benchmarks with a Business Focus -- The Relationship of Performance Models to Data -- Models for Software Performance Engineering -- Extracting Response Times from Fluid Analysis of Performance Models -- Approximate Solution of a PEPA Model of a Key Distribution Centre -- A Model Transformation from the Palladio Component Model to Layered Queueing Networks -- Model-Driven Generation of Performance Prototypes -- Benchmarks and Workload Characterization -- SCALASCA Parallel Performance Analyses of SPEC MPI2007 Applications -- Generating Probabilistic and Intensity-Varying Workload for Web-Based Software Systems -- Comparison of the SPEC CPU Benchmarks with 499 Other Workloads Using Hardware Counters -- Tuning Topology Generators Using Spectral Distributions -- Performance, Benchmarking and Sizing in Developing Highly Scalable Enterprise Software -- Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures -- Phase-Type Approximations for Message Transmission Times in Web Services Reliable Messaging -- A Framework for Simulation Models of Service-Oriented Architectures -- Model-Driven Performability Analysis of Composite Web Services -- Power and Performance -- Dynamic Server Allocation for Power and Performance -- Workload Characterization of the SPECpower_ssj2008 Benchmark -- Profiling, Monitoring and Optimization -- Trace-Context Sensitive Performance Profiling for Enterprise Software Applications -- Performance Monitoring and Analysis of a Large Online Transaction Processing System -- Speeding up STL Set/Map Usage in C++ Applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, SIPEW 2008, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in June 2008. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected out of 39 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on models for software performance engineering; benchmarks and workload characterization; Web services and service-oriented architectures; power and performance; and profiling, monitoring and optimization.

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10.1007/978-3-540-69814-2 doi


Application software.
Software engineering.
Electronic digital computers--Evaluation.
Computer networks .
Computer science.
Computer and Information Systems Applications.
Software Engineering.
System Performance and Evaluation.
Computer Communication Networks.
Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming.

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