Quantitative system performance: computer system analysis using queueing network models
Quantitative system performance: computer system analysis using queueing network models
Simulated annealing: theory and applications
Simulated annealing: theory and applications
Performance bounds for concurrent software with rendezvous
Performance Evaluation
Scalable problems and memory-bounded speedup
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Computers
U-Net: a user-level network interface for parallel and distributed computing
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Isoefficiency: Measuring the Scalability of Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
Automated Scalability Analysis of Message-Passing Parallel Programs
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
Performance Considerations of Shared Virtual Memory Machines
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Evaluating the Scalability of Distributed Systems
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Performance Analysis of a Distributed Question/Answering System
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Scalability Metrics and Analysis of Mobile Agent Systems
Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
Resource Function Capture for Performance Aspects of Software Components and Sub-Systems
Performance Engineering, State of the Art and Current Trends
Exploring architectural scalability
WOSP '04 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Software and performance
Measuring Scalability of Resource Management Systems
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 1 - Volume 02
On the Scalability of Centralized Control
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A model for characterizing the scalability of distributed systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
A framework for modelling and analysis of software systems scalability
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AoIM in peer-to-peer multiplayer online games
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A framework for characterization and analysis of software system scalability
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Speedup and scalability analysis of Master--Slave applications on large heterogeneous clusters
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Performance prediction of component- and pattern-based middleware for distributed systems
Proceedings of the 4th on Middleware doctoral symposium
Infrastructure for ubiquitous computing: improving quality with modularisation
Proceedings of the 2008 AOSD workshop on Aspects, components, and patterns for infrastructure software
Algorithm-system scalability of heterogeneous computing
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Performance of network and service monitoring frameworks
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
A performance experiment system supporting fast mapping of system issues
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
High level performance metrics for FPGA-based multiprocessor systems
Performance Evaluation
Performance, overhead, and packetization characteristics of Java application level protocols
ACM SIGITE Research in IT
MEMS: a method for evaluating middleware architectures
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The Journal of Supercomputing
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Many distributed systems must be scalable, meaning that they must be economically deployable in a wide range of sizes and configurations. This paper presents a scalability metric based on cost-effectiveness, where the effectiveness is a function of the system's throughput and its quality of service. It is part of a framework which also includes a scaling strategy for introducing changes as a function of a scale factor, and an automated virtual design optimization at each scale factor. This is an adaptation of concepts for scalability measures in parallel computing. Scalability is measured by the range of scale factors that give a satisfactory value of the metric, and good scalability is a joint property of the initial design and the scaling strategy. The results give insight into the scaling capacity of the designs, and into how to improve the design. A rapid simple bound on the metric is also described.The metric is demonstrated in this work by applying it to some well-known idealized systems, and to real prototypes of communications software.