Systems Performance Evaluation

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 56 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1532-0626
• DOI: 10.1002/cpe.761

✦ Synopsis

The study of system performance evaluation is of immense importance as it is needed at every stage in the life cycle of a system, including its design, manufacture, sale, use, upgrade, and so on. This special issue contains eight selected papers (out of 25) as extended and revised versions, which were originally presented at the International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS'02), held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2002, April 15-19, 2002, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A. The purpose of the workshop was to promote discussion on the development of innovative tools and techniques to keep up with the rapid evolution and ever-increasing complexity of parallel and distributed systems. Each paper was fully peer-reviewed according to the practice of this journal. The selected papers span important aspects of performance evaluation, including job scheduling, inter-processor communication, interconnection networks, concurrency control, embedded systems and multicast and broadcast communication. The contributions of these papers are outlined below.