Useful Links
- The following papers discusses the relative merits and demerits
of
harmonic means and geometric means for characterizing the performance
of a computer:
- Characterizing
computer performance with a single number, J. E. Smith, CACM,
Volume 31 (10), Oct 1988, pp 1202 - 1206
- SPEC
as a performance evaluation measure. Giladi, R., Ahitav, N.
IEEE Computer, Vol 28 (8), Aug 1995, pp 33-42
- This amazing
page created by Prof.
Dror Feitelson has links to a wealth of material including publicly
available trace data, benchmarks, performance tools, software for data
analysis, and also to many educational web sites on statistics and
simulation.
- The PAPI
software provides an API for accessing hardware performance counters
available on most microprocessors.
- The following papers discuss issues in workload characterization
and modeling
- These columns on back of the envelope calculations are very useful