A Statistical Methodology for Constructing Synthetic Test Workloads.

Abstract

Computer performance measurement and evaluation (CPME) studies are conducted for the purpose of sizing and selecting a new system (selection studies); during the design phase of either a new system or a hardware/software modification to an existing system to assess the impact of the new system/modification (performance projection studies); or to assess and improve the level of performance of an existing system (performance monitoring studies). Nearly all performance measures used are related to the workload being processed by the system. There is the need for a workload which emulates the actual workload, yet executes in less time and does not compromise the adequacy of the measurements. Such a workload is called a drive or test workload. A statistical methodology is proposed to aid in the construction of a test workload.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA107257

Entities

People

  • Wayne Thomas Graybeal

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
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  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Sampling
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  • Computer science

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