The Design of a Meta-System for Measurement and Simulation of Time-Sharing Computers.
Abstract
The report presents the results of a study of a measurement-simulation technique for evaluating modifications to time-sharing systems. The technique consists of using raw data, obtained by measurement of an operational system, as the input to a simulation model of the variant version of the system. The results of the research are reported in the form of a detailed design of a system that will perform this evaluation. It is called the Meta-System. The Meta-System consists of three parts: event-recording mechanisms in the time-sharing system that record a 'system event trace', a pre-processor of the system event trace that decomposes it into independent 'task event traces' and the simulator that accepts these as input. The particular Meta-System designed in this study was developed to operate with a model time-sharing system, whose features have been abstracted from those of several modern systems. These features include demand paging, multi-tasking, dynamic loading, and a virtual access method. The description of the model system is included in the report. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0718843
Entities
People
- Andrew S. Noetzel
Organizations
- Moore School of Electrical Engineering