Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynotes

   1. Scheduling for Server Farms: Approaches and Open Problems

      • Mor Harchol-Balter

      Pages 1-3

   2. SAP Standard Application Benchmarks - IT Benchmarks with a Business Focus

      • Ulrich Marquard, Clarissa Götz

      Pages 4-8

   3. The Relationship of Performance Models to Data

      • Murray Woodside

      Pages 9-28

3. Models for Software Performance Engineering

   1. Extracting Response Times from Fluid Analysis of Performance Models

      • Jeremy T. Bradley, Richard Hayden, William J. Knottenbelt, Tamas Suto

      Pages 29-43

   2. Approximate Solution of a PEPA Model of a Key Distribution Centre

      • Yishi Zhao, Nigel Thomas

      Pages 44-57

   3. A Model Transformation from the Palladio Component Model to Layered Queueing Networks

      • Heiko Koziolek, Ralf Reussner

      Pages 58-78

   4. Model-Driven Generation of Performance Prototypes

      • Steffen Becker, Tobias Dencker, Jens Happe

      Pages 79-98

4. Benchmarks and Workload Characterization

   1. SCALASCA Parallel Performance Analyses of SPEC MPI2007 Applications

      • Zoltán Szebenyi, Brian J. N. Wylie, Felix Wolf

      Pages 99-123

   2. Generating Probabilistic and Intensity-Varying Workload for Web-Based Software Systems

      • André van Hoorn, Matthias Rohr, Wilhelm Hasselbring

      Pages 124-143

   3. Comparison of the SPEC CPU Benchmarks with 499 Other Workloads Using Hardware Counters

      • Lodewijk Bonebakker

      Pages 144-153

   4. Tuning Topology Generators Using Spectral Distributions

      • Hamed Haddadi, Damien Fay, Steve Uhlig, Andrew Moore, Richard Mortier, Almerima Jamakovic et al.

      Pages 154-173

   5. Performance, Benchmarking and Sizing in Developing Highly Scalable Enterprise Software

      • Xiaoqing Cheng

      Pages 174-190

5. Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures

   1. Phase-Type Approximations for Message Transmission Times in Web Services Reliable Messaging

      • Philipp Reinecke, Katinka Wolter

      Pages 191-207

   2. A Framework for Simulation Models of Service-Oriented Architectures

      • Falko Bause, Peter Buchholz, Jan Kriege, Sebastian Vastag

      Pages 208-227

   3. Model-Driven Performability Analysis of Composite Web Services

      • Paolo Bocciarelli, Andrea D’Ambrogio

      Pages 228-246

6. Power and Performance

   1. Dynamic Server Allocation for Power and Performance

      • Joris Slegers, Nigel Thomas, Isi Mitrani

      Pages 247-261

   2. Workload Characterization of the SPECpower_ssj2008 Benchmark

      • Larry D. Gray, Anil Kumar, Harry H. Li

      Pages 262-282

7. Profiling, Monitoring and Optimization

   1. Trace-Context Sensitive Performance Profiling for Enterprise Software Applications

      • Matthias Rohr, André van Hoorn, Simon Giesecke, Jasminka Matevska, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Sergej Alekseev

      Pages 283-302

   2. Performance Monitoring and Analysis of a Large Online Transaction Processing System

      • Manoj Nambiar, Hemanta Kumar Kalita

      Pages 303-313

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.

• C++ programming language
• LA
• Scheduling
• Simulation
• System
• Web Services
• application tracing
• benchmarking
• distributed systems
• dynamic optimization
• energy efficiency
• graph spectrum
• internet topology
• performance engineering
• structured analysis

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