COMPSCI 296.2, Fall 2004

Experimental Methods in Computer Systems

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Lecture Notes

1. Introductory Lecture [ppt] (updated 8/22/04)
2. Part 1 Jain [ppt] (updated 8/25/04)
3. Strong Inference [ppt] (updated 8/30/04)
4. Part 2 Jain (Ch 4,5) [ppt] (updated 9/1/04)
5. Self-Scaling Benchmarks [ppt] (1/23/03 delayed by snow to 1/28/03)
6. Jain ch 6,7 [ppt] (1/30/03, 2/4/03)
7. Slides from Stefan Saroiu's OSDI talk [ppt 32MB] (2/4/03)
8. Slides from Timothy Sherwood's ASPLOS talk [ppt] (2/6/03)
9. Using traces (2/13/03)
10. Graphical presentations (2/18/03)
11. Graphical presentations (cont.) (2/20/03)
12. Applied Statistics (2/25/03)
13. Slides from OSDI talk by Jeremy Elston (2/27/03)
14. Applied Statistics (3/4/03)
15. Applied Statistics (3/6/03)
16. Experimental Design (3/18/03)
17. Exp. Design (cont.) (3/20/03)
18. Exp. Design (cont.) (3/25/03)
19. Exp. Design (cont.) (3/27/03)
20. Simulation (4/1/03)
21. Simulation and random numbers (4/8/03)
22. Testing random numbers (4/10/03) and slides from SIGMETRICS 02 talk by Carl Mauer
23. SIMOS tutorial by Rosenblum and Herrod
24. Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (4/17/03)