CS621: Perf. Evaluation
Dr. Krishna M. Sivalingam
Tutorial 7, Take Home: Due: Nov. 7, 2007, 3pm, submit only in class.
Open Book, Open Notes; NO Consultations with Anyone.
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* Select 2 most representative graphs from the research paper that you
are presenting. Critique each graph for completeness, clarity,
etc. and also in terms of the checklist of Box 10.1.
* Consider the optional homework assignment, emailed earlier. Which of
the different workload characterization techniques presented in
Chapter 6, can be applied to this performance study?
* Consider the results of a performance study where network throughput
(MB) is measured varying Number of Channels, Buffer Size and Packet
Size.
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4 KB 8 KB
1024 Bytes 4096 Bytes 1024 Bytes 4096 Bytes
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Ch = 8 18 24 26 48
Ch = 16 30 45 42 59
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Determine the proportion of variation that can be explained the
different effects.