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Future Directions in Performance Evaluation Research

Future Directions in Performance Evaluation Research. Panelists: Frederica Darema, NSF Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Research Adolfy Hoisie, Los Alamos National Lab Don Towsley, Umass-Amherst Organizer: Evgenia Smirni, William&Mary. Historical Overview. Past versus future

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Future Directions in Performance Evaluation Research

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  1. Future Directions in Performance Evaluation Research Panelists: Frederica Darema, NSF Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Research Adolfy Hoisie, Los Alamos National Lab Don Towsley, Umass-Amherst Organizer: Evgenia Smirni, William&Mary

  2. Historical Overview • Past versus future • Overview of past -- looking at Sigmetrics proceedings • Conference started in 1973 • Research topics “shift” in different decades • Theory versus experiments • Application areas

  3. Measurements/Simulation Statistics/Stoch. Processes Queuing Systems/Networks Validation Early years: 1970s • Bimodal focus: Theory -- Measurements (benchmarking) • 1975: BCMP paper (JACM) • Applications: virtual memory, multiprogramming, working set, paging,instrumentation and measurements, hardware monitors, business systems • Hardware: IBM, CDC, PDP-11/70, VAX/VMS

  4. Queuing Systems/Networks Statistics/Stoch. Processes Measurements/Simulation Validation Queuing Networks Era: 1980s • Clear focus on queuing networks: most (now textbook) results • 1980: Mean Value Analysis (Reiser/Lavenberg, JACM) • 1983: Stochastic Petri Nets paper (Marsan/Conte/Balbo, Sigmetrics’83) • Applications:I/O, storage, DBs, distributed & parallel systems, pipelining, networking • protocols, multiprocessor systems, shared memory multoprocessors • 1986: 1st Joint Sigmetrics/Performance conference • Position paper “Insularity of Performance Evaluation” (Ferrari, IEEE TSE) • Hardware: DEC, Cray IM, Cray X-MP, Cyber 205, hypercubes • Applications are becoming more concrete, parallel and distributed topics dominate the late 80’s

  5. Queueing Systems Stats/Stochastic Processes Measurements/Simulation Validation Systems Applications: 1990s • Clear focus on systems: measurements, new architectures, parallel systems • System support for performance of emerging systems and applications • Applications: scheduling, multimedia servers, traffic modeling, multi-level caching, Internet and • Web servers, storage, TCP/ATM, databases • Trends: • Early 90’s: parallel and distributed systems • Late 90’s: networking • Theoretical contributions declining

  6. Queuing Systems Statistics/Stoch. Processes Measurements/Simulation Validation Networking Applications: 2000s • Applications: moving from systems to networking applications • 2000: Best “systems paper” award, • 2006: Best paper in networking • 2007: Best papers in systems • Applications: networking applications ranging from 30% to 50% of the conference papers • Emerging applications: energy aware, sensor networks, traffic engineering • Increasing trend in theoretical contributions

  7. Turning to the panelists… Frederica Darema (NSF) Research supported by NSF Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research) Industry perspective Adolfy Hoisie, Los Alamos National Lab Research supported by DOE Don Towsley, Umass-Amherst Academic perspective

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