System performance evaluation: survey and appraisal
Communications of the ACM
Planning a computer system: Project Stretch
Planning a computer system: Project Stretch
System aspect: system/360 model 92
AFIPS '64 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the October 27-29, 1964, fall joint computer conference, part II: very high speed computer systems
A general-purpose time-sharing system
AFIPS '64 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference
Experiences with Performance Measurement and Modeling of a Processor Array
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Aspects of a Dynamically Adaptive Operating System
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Measurement based automatic analysis of FORTRAN programs
AFIPS '69 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 14-16, 1969, spring joint computer conference
Software measurements and their influence upon machine language design
AFIPS '69 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 14-16, 1969, spring joint computer conference
SPY: a program to monitor OS/360
AFIPS '70 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, fall joint computer conference
Instrumenting computer systems and their programs
AFIPS '70 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, fall joint computer conference
Real-time graphic display of time-sharing system operating characteristics
AFIPS '69 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 18-20, 1969, fall joint computer conference
Interpreting the results of a hardware systems monitor
AFIPS '71 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 18-20, 1971, spring joint computer conference
Modeling, measurement and computer power
AFIPS '72 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
Performance determination: the selection of tools, if any
AFIPS '73 Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition
Selected commercial evaluation products
ACM SIGMIS Database
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Classically the preponderance of measurements made on information processing systems is done for purposes of prediction or diagnosis of malfunction. The environment is monitored with observations of the ambient temperature, common system voltages and currents, and clocking pulse streams. Micromeasurements of system elements are made on-line with oscilloscope or meter and off-line by specialized more complex testing systems. Systems are used to test themselves by generation of diagnostic programs using predefined data sets and by explicit controls permitting degradation of the environment. As opposed to equipment malfunction, programs malfunction only in the sense that there is an inconsistency between the intent of the programmer and the finally executed machine code. Diagnostic programs aid in making measurements related to consistency.