Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, SIPEW 2008, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in June 2008.

Keynotes.- Scheduling for Server Farms: Approaches and Open Problems.- SAP Standard Application Benchmarks - IT Benchmarks with a Business Focus.- The Relationship of Performance Models to Data.- Models for Software Performance Engineering.- Extracting Response Times from Fluid Analysis of Performance Models.- Approximate Solution of a PEPA Model of a Key Distribution Centre.- A Model Transformation from the Palladio Component Model to Layered Queueing Networks.- Model-Driven Generation of Performance Prototypes.- Benchmarks and Workload Characterization.- SCALASCA Parallel Performance Analyses of SPEC MPI2007 Applications.- Generating Probabilistic and Intensity-Varying Workload for Web-Based Software Systems.- Comparison of the SPEC CPU Benchmarks with 499 Other Workloads Using Hardware Counters.- Tuning Topology Generators Using Spectral Distributions.- Performance, Benchmarking and Sizing in Developing Highly Scalable Enterprise Software.- Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures.- Phase-Type Approximations for Message Transmission Times in Web Services Reliable Messaging.- A Framework for Simulation Models of Service-Oriented Architectures.- Model-Driven Performability Analysis of Composite Web Services.- Power and Performance.- Dynamic Server Allocation for Power and Performance.- Workload Characterization of the SPECpower_ssj2008 Benchmark.- Profiling, Monitoring and Optimization.- Trace-Context Sensitive Performance Profiling for Enterprise Software Applications.- Performance Monitoring and Analysis of a Large Online Transaction Processing System.- Speeding up STL Set/Map Usage in C++ Applications.