Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

The book opens with an overview of the main performance analysis techniques, then surveys benchmark suites for particular areas, including Java, embedded systems, CPUs and web servers. It goes on to explain how to choose suitable averages when reporting metrics.

Statistical methods get a detailed treatment, covering a summary of statistics, statistical sampling for simulation, the SimPoint technique and an overview of statistical simulation. Later chapters address benchmark subsetting and the basics of analytical modelling, including queuing models and Petri nets. The last three chapters deal with hardware performance counters.

It suits computer systems researchers, engineers who measure and tune processors and servers, and graduate students in the field. Edition note: first edition, published by CRC Press in 2005, 304 pages, ISBN-13: 9780849336225.