24. Int. CMG Conference 1998

24th International Computer Measurement Group Conference, December 6-11, 1998, Anaheim, California, USA, Proceedings. Computer Measurement Group 1998

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/cmg/1998,
  title     = {24th International Computer Measurement Group Conference, December
               6-11, 1998, Anaheim, California, USA, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {Int. CMG Conference},
  publisher = {Computer Measurement Group},
  year      = {1998},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Tuesday, December 8, 1998

Session 1

Yi-Chun Chu: Performance Measurement of the PeopleSoft Multi-Tier Remote Computing Application. 1-25
Thomas Beretvas: DASD Tuning in the New DASD Environment. 26-38
Gregory V. Caliri: Getting Started in Mainframe Capacity Planning. 39-43
Melur K. Raghuraman, Venkat Ramanathan: Network Performance Monitoring in Windows NT. 44-50
Joel Goldstein: DB2 Buffer Pool Tuning - Top Down or Bottom Up? 51-62
Brian L. Wong: Comparing MVS and UNIX Workload Characteristics. 63-69
Steven E. Smead: Service Level Instrumentation 101 - An In-Depth Look at How to Instrument End User Transactions. 70-84
Daniel P. Ruehl: Business Centric Resource Management Reporting. 85-93

Session 2

Charles L. Burmaster, Robert Daniel Johnson, Robert H. Johnson: Performance Metric Validation in Chaos. 94-105
Bruce McNutt: Disk Capacity, Performance, and Cost: Maintaining the Balance. 106-113
Tim Follen: Capacity Planning and Performance: Tips and Techniques. 114-120
Mike Tsykin, Christopher D. Langshaw: End-To-End Response Time and Beyond : Direct Measurement of Service Levels. 121-132
Bernard Domanski: NT Benchmarking. 133-149
Joseph L. Hellerstein, Fan Zhang, Perwez Shahabuddin: Characterizing Normal Operation of a Web Server: Application to Workload Forecasting and Problem Determination. 150-160
Ted McGavin: Fibre Channel: The Third Age of Disk Connectivity. 161-165

Session 4

Linwood Merritt: Getting to Goal Mode. 166-171
Jaqueline A. Lynch, Richard Milner: User Experience of RVA2 and Snapshot Copy. 172-176
Andrew L. McCasker: Beyond Availability Management. 177-184
John F. Maher: Capacity Planning: Are We Still Counting Angles on a Pinhead. 185-189
Jodi Perry, William J. Raymond, David J. Young: A CICSDB2 Legacy Application takes the Sysplex Plunge. 190-201
Tachen Leo Lo: Asset Management In a Distributed Computing Environment. 202-208
Adrian N. Cockcroft: CPU Time Measurement Errors. 209-218
Geoffrey L. Bradford: Under the Covers: Internals of a Web-Based Network & Systems Performance Reporting System. 219-225
Andrew Schmitt, Arthur P. Goldberg, Robert Buff: Comparison of HTTP and HTTPS Sever Performance. 226-231

Session 5

Donald R. Deese: Evaluating and Improving CICS Performance in MVS (Goal Mode). 232-244
Mark B. Friedman: Optimizing the Performance of Wintel Applications. 245-259
Richard A. Carlisle: Classical Comparative Analysis Procedures and Deterministic Chaos. 260-271
Roger P. Botterbusch: Workload Forecasting Issues for World Wide (and Web) Applications. 272-278
Dale Bryan Drake: Resource Accounting, Cost Allocation & Charge-back in a DFSMS Environment. 279-285
Richard McDougall: UNIX Memory Usage, Instrumentation and Analysis. 286-290
Robert J. Michalsky: Load Testing in an Internet World. 291-299
Hans W. Arnold: TPF - An Operating System for Performance. 300-304

Wednesday, December 9, 1998

Session 1

Steve C. Lambourne: Will the REAL Parallel Sysplex Please Stand Up. 305-316
Pat V. Crain, Craig D. Hanson: Oracle Performance Analysis using Wait Events. 317-324
John C. Tyrrell: How to Stop DFHSM Thrashing in an SMS World. 325-336
Connie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams: Performance Evaluation of Distributed Software Architectures. 337-345
William G. Pope: Planning Domino Email Servers using Notes Transactions. 346-356
Brian L. Wong: The Ubiquitous SCSI: What Is It? 357-362
John Mullen: The Day We Hung Up Our Sandals or Workload Manager in Goal Mode Operation. 363-373
Ellen M. Friedman, Jerry L. Rosenberg: Countdown to the Millenium: Issues to Consider in the Final Year. 374-387

Session 2

Stephen L. Samson: The Folly of Ownership Revisited or Whose CICS Region is That, Anyway? 388-393
Wayne Munson: Introduction To Fibre Channel Connectivity. 394-403
William G. Pope: A Planning Model for Lotus Notes Applications. 404-408
Sam Nokes: Estimating Network Traffic for Workload Modeling. 409-421
Thomas E. Bell, Russell C. Davis: Scrambling To Upgrade Infrastructure Software For Year 2000. 422-430
Doug V. Johnson: Database Layout Guidelines for Large Queries. 431-436
Sudhir R. Nath: Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning of the UNIX Systems. 437-447
Daniel A. Menascé, Nagesh Kakarlamudi: Performance and Availability of Rplicated Database Servers. 448-455

Session 4

Alan Harbitter, Daniel A. Menascé: Performance Issues in Large Distributed System Security. 456-467
George W. Dodson: IT Availability - It's Critical to Your Business. 468-487
Danilo Gotta Luca Biffi: Performance Evaluation of Web Applications. 468-
Richard S. Ralston: A Unique VTS Experience. 488-495
Hari Sivaraman, Swami Ramany: Scalability Analysis of SCSI Connected IO Systems. 496-506
Luca Pagliarini, Silvio Pastore Stocchi: From Design to Delivery: A Practical Experience on Performance Prediction. 507-517

Session 5

Anthony G. Mungal: I/O Concurrency, I/O Bandwidth, Access Density and the Like. 518-527
Mark W. Johnson: Measuring Service Levels in E-business Applications and Applets. 528-538
Marco A. Mendes, Virgilio Almeida: Analyzing the Impact of Dynamic Pages on the Performance of Web Servers. 539-547
Frank M. Bereznay: Who Needs Virtual Tape When You Have Fat DASD? Maybe You Do! 548-555
Edward A. Woods: Expanding The Reach Of DB2: TCP/IP and DRDA. 556-565

Thursday, December 10, 1998

Session 1

Irwin F. Kraus: The RMF Type 70 Record: A Plethora of Possibilities. 566-576
Joseph K. Merton: Organizational Behavior to Systems Implementation Failures. 577-581
Wayne A. Wyrobek: Tales from the Crypto: Performance Alerts for Mainframe Users of Integrated Cryptographic Facilities. 582-592
Don O. Koch, Gail Ridgley, Carl Meredith: Using Unix Accounting Utilities for Chargeback Accounting. 593-601
Harry J. Foxwell, Daniel A. Menascé: Prefetching Results of Web Searches. 602-609
Jee Fung Pang, Melur K. Raghuraman: Understanding the Windows NT I/O Subsystem. 610-616

Session 2

H. Pat Artis: DIBs, Data Buffers, and Distance: Understanding the Performance Characteristics of ESCON Links. 617-625
Jack B. Woolley: Creating a Response Time Agreement for C/S Applications is a Whole New Ballgame! 626-635
Jodi E. Perry: ARM Yourself for Continuous Availability. 636-642
Jim Skeen: Data Warehouse Performance: A Methodology for Analysis. 643-654
Carol E. Kerr: Monitoring Your MS Exchange Server. 655-663
William Z. Zahavi: The World According to a Storage System. 664-674
Ronald V. Jones: Performance Monitor - The View From the Driver's Seat. 675-681

Session 4

Chuck Hopf: "40, 153, 273, 652". 682-697
Eddie Rabinovitch: Integrating Data in the Enterprise. 698-707
Mark P. Grinnell: SRDF Remote Copy Performance Test Results. 708-717
Henry Steinhauer: Network Traffic Analysis at the 20, 000 Foot Level - Or Where Did All This Traffic Come From. 718-721
Junro Nose, Jun Ohyama: Performance Measurement Methodology: Passive vs. Active. 722-727
Ilya Pevzner, Arthur P. Goldberg: Characteristics of WWW Proxy Traces. 728-737
Andy Martin: PC Desktop Performance and Hardware Performance Counters. 738-748
Kenneth D. Williams: MVS Application Performance Management. 749-760

Session 5

Adrian N. Cockcroft: Managing the UNIX Mainframe. 761-771
Joseph K. Merton: Measuring the Effects of Wide Area Networks and Data Transmission. 772-779
Ronald Dodge, Daniel A. Menascé: Prefetching Inlines to Improve Web Server Latency. 780-788
Adam Grummitt: Performance Management of Larger Distributed Systems Based on Windows NTT and Ethernet Networks. 789-797
Alan M. Sherkow: Does Your Installation Have Half-Second I/O Response Time? 798-809
Yiping Ding, Kenneth Newman: Analyzing Data with Uncertainty. 810-820
Ferass ElRayes, Jerome A. Rolia, Richard J. Friedrich: The Performance Impact of Workload Characterization Using ARM. 821-830

Friday, December 11, 1998

Session 1

Donald R. Deese: Analyzing RMF Service Class Data and Workload Activity Reports. 831-841
Jeffry A. Schwartz: Forecasting Processor Consumption in a Multiple Machine Environment. 842-853
Mark M. Maccabee: End-To-End Response Time of Lotus Notes Client and Limited Decomposition. 854-862
Robert Geist, James Westall, Dante M. Treglia: Real-time, 3-D Graphics for the Linux PC. 863-873
Pierre M. Fiorini, Yiping Ding, Lester Lipsky: On Modeling and Characterizing 'Self-Similar' Data Traffic. 874-885
Connie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams: Performance Engineering Models of CORBA-based Distributed-Object Systems. 886-898
Claude Aron, Suresh V. Gadad: Managing 100+ Servers. 899-909
Brian L. Farrell, Richard Menninger, Stephen G. Strickland: Performance Testing & Analysis of Distributed Client/Server Database Systems. 910-921

Session 2

Tim R. Norton: Don't Predict Applications When You Should Model the Business. 922-933
Kelly L. Carr: The Realities of Performance. 934-956
Paul A. Awoseyi: Performance Optimization in PC Server Environment.
Jozo J. Dujmovic: Optimizing Computer System Configurations. 957-967
Paul W. Edmiston, Jack Peng, Tachen Leo Lo: Reliability & Availability of Client/Server Networks: An Old Problem in A New Environment. 968-975
Timothy J. Gibson, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long: Long-term File System Activity and Inter-reference Periods. 976-987
Alex Patterson: Experiences Migrating a Large Assembler Mainframe Simulator to C++ on a PC. 988-993
Chuck Hopf: I Did It My Way. 994-998