Techniques for Designing Balanced, Extensible Computer Systems,
Abstract
The study is concerned with a hierarchy of techniques for analyzing and determining minimum cost balanced, extensible time-shared multi-processor computer systems. A balanced system is defined as a system whose performance is insensitive to the variations in parameters specifying the user's and the program's behavior. An extensible system is defined as a system, whose capabilities are increased by the addition of components only such that the new system is a minimum cost, balanced, system. The hierarchy includes: PMS configuration, a multi-program model of a time-sharing computer system with paging or swapping strategies, the cache parameters and the actual cache structure at the gate level. A steady state model of a paging, time-shared, multi-processor c computer system is developed. Queuing theory is used to obtain the response time for user interaction, and given parameter attributes. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0763117
Entities
People
- Sushil Bhatia
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University