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Suggested Preparatory Readings for CSI 516

• Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.
  • Chapter 1 : Performance Analysis (especially Sections 1.4 and 1.5).
  • Chapter 6 : I/O and Performance Analysis (especially Sections 6.3 and 6.4).
  • Chapter 7 : Network Architecture
• Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Performance Analysis , John Wiley and Sons, 1992.
  • Chapter 1 : Introduction to performance evaluation
  • Chapter 2 : Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • Chapter 3 : Selecting Techniques and Metrics
  • Chapter 10 : Data Presentation
  • Chapter 12 : Summarizing Measured Data
  • Chapter 16 : Introduction to Experiment Design
  • Chapter 24 : Introduction to Simulation
  • Chapter 25 : Analyzing Simulation Results
  • Chapter 30 : Introduction to Queueing Theory
  • Chapter 31 : Analysis of a Single Queue
• Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, Applied Operating Systems Concepts , John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
  • Chapter 14 : Network Structures
  • Chapter 20 : The Unix Operating System
• W. Richard Stevens, Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment , Addison Wesley, 1991.
  • Chapter 12 : Advanced I/O
  • Chapter 15 : Advanced Interprocess Communication

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