Research Catalog

Title

Performance models of multiprocessor systems / M. Ajmone Marsan, G. Balbo, and G. Conte.

Author

Ajmone Marsan, M.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachsetts : MIT Press, [1986]
• ©1986

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Additional Authors

• Balbo, Gianfranco
• Conte, Gianni, 1946-

Description

xiv, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

While there are several studies of computer systems modeling and performance evaluation where models of multiprocessor systems can be found as examples of applications of general modeling techniques, this is the first to focus entirely on the problem of modeling and performance evaluation of multiprocessor systems using analytical methods. Increasingly sophisticated and fast-moving technologies require models that can estimate the performance of a computer system without having actually to build and test it, models that can help designers make the correct architectural choices. The area of distributed computer architectures, or multiprocessor systems, has numerous such choices and can greatly benefit from an extensive use of performance evaluation techniques in the system design stage. The multiprocessor features that are studied here focus on contention for physical system resources, such as shared devices and interconnection networks. A brief overview covers the modeling of other important system characteristics, such as failures of components and synchronizations at the software level.

Series Statement

MIT Press series in computer systems

Uniform Title

MIT Press series in computer systems

Subject

• Multiprocessors > Evaluation
• Multiprocessors > Evaluation
• Datenverarbeitungssystem
• Leistungsbewertung
• Mehrprozessorsystem
• Modell
• Multiprocesseurs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Stochastic processes -- Queuing models -- Stochastic petri nets -- Multiprocessor architectures -- Analysis of crossbar multiprocessor architectures -- Single-bus multiprocessor with external common memory -- Multi-bus multiprocessors with external common memory -- Single-bus Multiprocessors with distributed common memory -- Multiple-bus multiprocessors with distributed common memory -- Other aspects of multiprocessor performance evaluation.

ISBN

• 0262010933
• 9780262010931
• 0262132192
• 9780262132190

LCCN

85023662

OCLC

• ocm12978611
• 12978611
• SCSB-1183829

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library