Course number 67650 – 2009
Experimental Approaches in Computer Science
This course is complementary to
Topics in Performance Evaluation.
This course is more about measurements, including examples of discovering
unknown facts about workloads or the Internet, and generally the use of
experimental procedures.
The other course places more emphasis on the methodologies of simulation and
analysis, and presents several case studies of performance evaluation.
The plan is to give these two courses in alternate years.
Class location: Shprintzak 213, Tuesday 16–18
Teacher: Prof. Dror
Feitelson
Email: feit@cs...
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Textbooks:
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David J. Lilja, Measuring Computer Performance,
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis,
Wiley 1991.
Syllabus:
- The experimental method
- Data presentation
- Measuring attributes and performance of computer systems
- Workload characterization
- Models of large systems
- Experimental algorithmics
And look at the (tentative) week-by-week plan of the course.
Grading:
The grade in the course will be determined by your work throughout the course
("avoda shotefet").
There will be 12 weekly exercises, worth 8.33 points each.
If you have a good reason for not doing one or more of the exercises
(e.g. you have milu'im for the whole period) you will be excused, and
the grade will be calculated based on the others.
There will be no final exam.
The default grade for a ``very good'' exercise is 95.
A grade of 100 is reserved for whoever does something special extra,
or shows some special insights.
Links:
For more information on various topics, see the
collection of experimental computer science links.
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