CS533 Mid-Term Exam Topic Outline

Here is an outline of the topics that might be on the mid-term exam:

• Statistics
  • Indices of central tendency
  • Indices of dispersion
  • Comparing systems
• Data Presentation
  • Guidelines
  • Common mistakes
  • Pictoral games
• Selection of Techniques and Metrics
  • Workload selection
  • Performance selection
• Types of Workloads
  • Instruction mixes
  • Kernels
  • Application benchmarks
• Workload characterization
  • Representing with one number
  • Specifying dispersion
  • Clustering
• Monitors
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Distributed system
• WS00
  • Implicit hypothesis
  • Methodology
  • Experimental setup
  • Overall findings
• LHPT95
  • Implicit hypothesis
  • Methodology
  • Measure of Experiments
  • Overall findings
• GS95
  • Short-comings of the then-modern benchmarks
  • Main idea behind hint
  • QUIPS and NetQUIPS
  • Interpretation of QUIPS graphs
• Hen00
  • Effort in making SPEC benchmark
  • Effects of cache, CPU

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