Class and Examination Attendance

If you miss class, you are still responsible for the material covered in the lecture and any assignment that is made. It would be wise to borrow lecture notes from another student in the class. Your absence does not change the due date of an assignment. CS 594 Course Outline

The following is a preliminary outline of the topics intended for this course. It is subject to change and reordering of topics.

• Part I: Preliminaries (Chapters 1-4, [QSP])
  • Overview of QNM
  • Conducting a Modelling Study
  • Fundamental Laws
  • QNM Inputs and Outputs

• Part II: Analytic Techniques (Chapters 5-7, [QSP])
  • Bounds on Performance
  • One Job Class Models
  • Multiple Job Class Models
  • Flow Equivalence and Hierarchical Modelling

• Part III: Benchmarking Methodologies
  • Benchmarking with kernels
  • Benchmarking with applications
  • Hardware Performance Monitor Characterization (HPM)
  • Benchmark analysis and comparisons
  • Parallel benchmarks

• Part IV: Markov Models (Chapter 5, [FPM])
  • Representations
  • State Classification
  • Discrete-Time Systems
  • Continuous Time Systems
  • Simulation

• Part V: Specific Subsystems (Chapters 9-11, [QSP])
  • Memory
  • Disk I/O
  • Processors