SIGMETRICS 1996: Philadelphia, PA, USA

1996 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., May 23-26, 1996, Proceedings. Performance Evaluation Review 24(1), May 1996

Scheduling

R. Gopalakrishnan, Guru M. Parulkar:
Bringing Real-Time Scheduling Theory and Practice Closer for Multimedia Computing. 1-12
Mor Harchol-Balter, Allen B. Downey:
Exploiting Process Lifetime Distributions for Dynamic Load Balancing. 13-24
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler:
Effective Distributed Scheduling of Parallel Workloads. 25-36

Parallel Systems

Beng-Hong Lim, Ricardo Bianchini:
Limits on the Performance Benefits of Multithreading and Prefetching. 37-46
Peter A. Dinda, David R. O'Hallaron:
Fast Message Assembly Using Compact Address Relations. 47-56
Eric W. Parsons, Kenneth C. Sevcik:
Coordinated Allocation of Memory and Processors in Multiprocessors. 57-67

Simulation

Emmett Witchel, Mendel Rosenblum:
Embra: Fast and Flexible Machine Simulation. 68-79
Lawrence S. Brakmo, Larry L. Peterson:
Experiences with Network Simulation. 80-90
Albert G. Greenberg, Scott Shenker, Alexander L. Stolyar:
Asynchronous Updates in Large Parallel Systems. 91-103

Networks

Dimitrios Stiliadis, Anujan Varma:
Design and Analysis of Frame-Based Fair Queuing: A New Traffic Scheduling Algorithm for Packet Switched Networks. 104-115
David J. Yates, Erich M. Nahum, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley:
Networking Support for Large Scale Multiprocessor Servers. 116-125
Martin F. Arlitt, Carey L. Williamson:
Web Server Workload Characterization: The Search for Invariants. 126-137

Measurement and Monitoring

Margaret Martonosi, David Ofelt, Mark Heinrich:
Integrating Performance Monitoring and Communication in Parallel Computers. 138-147
Umesh Krishnaswamy, Isaac D. Scherson:
Micro-Architecture Evaluation Using Performance Vectors. 148-159
Mark Crovella, Azer Bestavros:
Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Causes. 160-169

Modeling and Analysis I

Bruce Hillyer, Abraham Silberschatz:
On the Modeling and Performance Characteristics of a Serpentine Tape Drive. 170-179
Daniel A. Menascé, Odysseas I. Pentakalos, Yelena Yesha:
An Analytic Model of Hierachical Mass Storage Systems with Network-Attached Storage Devices. 180-189
Ken Chen, Laurent Decreusefond:
An Approximate Analysis of Waiting Time in Multi-Class M/G/1/./EDF Queues. 190-199

Video

Charu C. Aggarwal, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu:
On Optimal Piggyback Merging Policies for Video-on-Demand Systems. 200-209
Richard Gerber, Ladan Gharai:
Experiments with Digital Video Playback. 210-221
James D. Salehi, Zhi-Li Zhang, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley:
Supporting Stored Video: Reducing Rate Variability and End-to-End Resource Requirements through Optimal Smoothing. 222-231

Modeling and Analysis II

Elizabeth Varki, Lawrence W. Dowdy:
Analysis of Balanced Fork-Join Queueing Networks. 232-241
Juan A. Carrasco, Javier Escribá, Angel Calderón:
Efficient Exploration of Availability Models Guided by Failure Distances. 242-251
Sachin Garg, Yennun Huang, Chandra M. R. Kintala, Kishor S. Trivedi:
Minimizing Completion Time of a Program by Checkpointing and Rejuvenation. 252-261

Extended Abstracts

Tracy Kimbrel, Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Anna R. Karlin, Kai Li:
Integrating Parallel Prefetching and Caching. 262-263
Scott T. Leutenegger, Mario A. Lopez:
A Buffer Model for Evaluating the Performance of R-Tree Packing Algorithms. 264-265
Joseph L. Hellerstein:
An Approach to Selecting Metrics for detecting Performance Problems in Information Systems. 266-267
William V. Courtright II, Garth A. Gibson, Mark Holland, Jim Zelenka:
RAIDframe: Rapid Prototyping for Disk Arrays. 268-269
Swaminathan Ramany, Derek L. Eager:
Quantifying Achievable Routing Performance in Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks. 270-271
Steven Hotovy, David Schneider, Timothy J. O'Donnell:
Analysis of the Early Workload on the Cornell Theory Center IBM SP2. 272-273

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