[E-BOOK] Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action

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#BESTSELLERPerformance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems:Queueing Theory in ActionSinopsis :Computer systems design is full of conundrums: &#8226Giena choice between a single machine with speed s, or nmachines each with speed s/n, which should we choose?&#8226Ifboth the arrival rate and service rate double, will themean response time stay the same? &#8226hold systemsreally aim to balance load, or is this a convenient myth?&#8226Ifa scheduling policy favors one set of jobs, does itnecessarily hurt some other jobs, or are these&#8220coservation laws&#8221being misinterpreted?&#8226Dogreedy, shortest-delay, routing strategies makesense in a server farm, or is what's good for the individualdisastrous for the system as a whole? &#8226Hodo high job
size variability and heavy-tailed workloads affect the choice ofa scheduling policy? &#8226Hoshould one trade off energyand delay in designing a computer system? &#8226If12servers are needed to meet delay guarantees when the arrivalrate is 9 jobs/sec, will we need 12,000 servers when the arrivalrate is 9,000 jobs/sec? Tackling the questions that systemsdesigners care about, this book brings queueing theorydecisively back to computer science. The book is written withcomputer scientists and engineers in mind and is full ofexamples from computer systems, as well as manufacturingand operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highlyapproachable, even for undergraduates, while still beingthoroughly rigorous and also covering a much wider span oftopics than many queueing books. Readers benefit from alively mix of motivation and intuition, with illustrations,examples, and more than 300 exercises &#8211all whileacquiring the skills needed to model, analyze, and designlarge-scale systems with good performance and low cost. Theexercises are an important feature, teaching research-levelcounterintuitive lessons in the design of computer systems.The goal is to train readers not only to customize existinganalyses but also to invent their own.

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