SIGMETRICS 1993: Santa Clara, California, USA

I/O System Performance I

• Peter M. Chen, David A. Patterson:
  A New Approach to I/O Performance Evaluation - Self-Scaling I/O Benchmarks, Predicted I/O Performance. 1-12
  
• Prabuddha Biswas, K. K. Ramakrishnan:
  Trace Driven Analysis of Write Caching Policies for Disks. 13-23
  

Cache Simulation

• Rabin A. Sugumar, Santosh G. Abraham:
  Efficient Simulation of Caches under Optimal Replacement with Applications to Miss Characterization. 24-35
  
• Jacqueline Chame, Michel Dubois:
  Cache Inclusion and Processor Sampling in Multiprocessor Simulations. 36-47
  

Parallel Systems I

• Steven K. Reinhardt, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Alvin R. Lebeck, James C. Lewis, David A. Wood:
  The Wisconsin Wind Tunnel: Virtual Prototyping of Parallel Computers. 48-60
  
• Vikram S. Adve, Mary K. Vernon:
  The Influence of Random Delays on Parallel Execution Times. 61-73
  
• Emilia Rosti, Evgenia Smirni, Thomas D. Wagner, Amy W. Apon, Lawrence W. Dowdy:
  The KSR1: Experimentation and Modeling of Poststore. 74-85
  

I/O System Performance II

• Gregory R. Ganger, Yale N. Patt:
  The Process-Flow Model: Examining I/O Performance from the System's Point of View. 86-97
  
• Edward K. Lee, Randy H. Katz:
  An Analytic Performance Model of Disk Arrays. 98-109
  

Tools and Techniques

• Dong Tang, Ravishankar K. Iyer:
  MEASURE+ - A Measurement-Based Dependability Analysis Package. 110-121
  
• A. V. Ramesh, Kishor S. Trivedi:
  On the Sensitivity of Transient Solutions of Markov Models. 122-134
  

Simulation Methods

• David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger:
  Parallel Simulation of Markovian Queueing Networks Using Adaptive Uniformization. 135-145
  
• Stephen R. Goldschmidt, John L. Hennessy:
  The Accuracy of Trace-Driven Simulations of Multiprocessors. 146-157
  

Parallel Systems II

• Sanjeev Setia, Mark S. Squillante, Satish K. Tripathi:
  Processor Scheduling on Multiprogrammed, Distributed Memory Parallel Computers. 158-170
  
• Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, James Z. Teng:
  Performance Comparison of Thrashing Control Policies for Concurrent Mergesorts with Parallel Prefetching. 171-182
  
• Dikran S. Meliksetian, C. Y. Roger Chen:
  A Markov-Modulated Bernoulli Process Approximation for the Analysis of Banyan Networks. 183-194
  

Real-Time Scheduling

• Hiroshi Arakawa, Daniel I. Katcher, Jay K. Strosnider, Hideyuki Tokuda:
  Modeling and Validation of the Real-Time Mach Scheduler. 195-206
  
• Sanjoy K. Baruah, Jayant R. Haritsa:
  ROBUST: A Hardware Solution to Real-Time Overload. 207-216
  
• Jayanta K. Dey, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley, C. M. Krishna, Mahesh Girkar:
  Efficient On-Line Processor Scheduling for a Class of IRIS (Increasing Reward with Increasing Service.) Real-Time Tasks. 217-228
  

Cache Models

• Robert J. T. Morris:
  Analysis of Superposition of Streams into a Cache Buffer. 229-235
  
• Jory Tsai, Anant Agarwal:
  Analyzing Multiprocessor Cache Behavior Through Data Reference Modeling. 236-247
  
• Margaret Martonosi, Anoop Gupta, Thomas E. Anderson:
  Effectiveness of Trace Sampling for Performance Debugging Tools. 248-259
  

Extended Abstracts

• Jong Suk Ahn, Peter B. Danzig, Deborah Estrin, Brenda Timmerman:
  Hybrid Technique for Simulating High Bandwidth Delay Computer Networks. 260-261
  
• Jeffrey C. Becker, Arvin Park:
  An Analysis of the Information Content of Address and Data Reference Streams. 262-263
  
• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Luis Ramos:
  An Evaluation of Alternative Virtual Replication Strategies for Continuous Retrieval of Multimedia Data. 264-265
  
• Jonathan Kay, Joseph Pasquale:
  A Summary of TCP/IP Networking Software Performance for the DECstation 5000. 266-267
  
• Gary Lewandowski, Anne Condon, Eric Bach:
  Asynchronous Analysis of Parallel Dynamic Programming. 268-269
  
• Kang G. Shin, Chao-Ju Hou:
  Evaluation of Load Sharing in HARTS while Considering Message Routing and Broadcasting. 270-271
  
• Josep Torrellas, Andrew Tucker, Anoop Gupta:
  Benefits of Cache-Affinity Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: A Summary. 272-274
  
• Vidar Vetland, Peter H. Hughes, Arne Sølvberg:
  A Composite Modelling Approach to Software Performance Measurement. 275-276
  
• David B. Wagner:
  Approximate Mean Value Analysis of Interconnection Networks with Deflection Routing. 277-278
  
• Carey L. Williamson:
  Optimizing File Transfer Response Time Using the Loss-Load Curve Congestion Control Mechanism. 279-280