Performance Evaluation of Multiprogrammed Time-Shared Computer Systems

Abstract

The report presents a comprehensive set of hierarchically organized modular analytical models developed for the performance evaluation of multiprogrammed virtual-memory time-shared computer systems using demand paging. The hierarchy of models contains a user behavior model, a secondary memory model, a program behavior model, a processor model, and a total system model. This thesis is particularly concerned with the last three models. The program behavior model developed in this thesis permits one to estimate the frequency of paging expected on a given processing system. The processor model enables one to evaluate the throughput of a given multi-processor multi-memory processing system under multiprogramming. Finally, the total system model allows us to derive the response time distribution of an entire computer system under study. The report includes two PL/I programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0749949

Entities

People

  • Akira Sekino

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Markov Models
  • Markov Processes
  • Operating Systems
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Statistics
  • System Software

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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.