Automatic generation of performance models for distributed application systems

Organizations have become increasingly dependent on computing systems to achieve their business goals. The performance of these systems in terms of response times and cost has a major impact on theireffectiveness. To achieve openness and scalability, these systems have begun to rely on distributed environment technologies such as the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) and the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). The resulting systems are complex and have performance behaviour that can defy intuition. Predictive performance models and performance evaluation techniques are needed to help manage their behaviour. Predictive models allow the timely evaluation of the performance impact of many different application loads and alternative configurations. Unfortunately model building by hand can be time- consuming and error-prone. This paper describes techniques developed to help automate the construction of perf...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CASCON
• Authors: M. Qin, R. Lee, Asham El Rayess, Vidar Vetland, Jerome A. Rolia
• Keywords: CASCON 1996, CASCON 2007, Model Building, Performance, Performance Models