The availability of vector processors capable of sustaining computing rates of 10⁸ arithmetic results has raised the question of whether peripheral storage devices representing current technology can keep such processors supplied with data. By carefully ...

This session will review the state of the art of microprocessor development from the standpoint of technology, software, and systems considerations. The papers are admittingly biased toward a software audience. Some less than obvious pitfalls of ...

The Purdue Dual-MACE operating system has been equipped with a software event-recording facility. This facility provides a detailed view of the dynamic behavior of the system in operation in addition to more traditional statistical summaries. This paper ...

This paper reports on the design and analysis of a statistical experiment conducted on a “live” job stream to determine the effect of segment size used for storage allocation on the system performance. Performance measures selected are turnaround time, ...

A new general model of I/O - CPU interation is described.

The model is a discrete Markov process, and takes into account mean CPU time between physical I/O requests, mean I/O service times for each device, single or double buffering, and CPU queue ...

This paper develops analytic techniques for achieving macro-level configurational optimization of computer systems. The computer is viewed as a network of queues with the processors, main memory, auxiliary memory and the transfer channels being the ...

The papers of this session span the field of computer system performance analysis. Kachhal and Arora develop an analytic approach to the much discussed, but relatively little explored field of configuration optimization. Peterson and Bulgren compare ...

In many situations the potential user of a high-performance computer graphics system must not only select a specific system, but he must also determine which generic type of system best serves his needs. Of course, this is not always the case because ...

The potential user of a high-performance computer graphics system must select a specific system, but he must also determine which generic type of system best serves his needs. There are three types of computer graphics systems: stand-alone, satellite, ...

Three people active in the field of measurement of computer performance will share their views of what measurement is doing to us. Is it improving the quality of life or anything else? Is it causing more problems than solutions?

The panelists will ...