Table of Contents

• Memory System Performance of UNIX on CC-NUMA MultiprocessorsJohn Chapin, Stephen Alan Herrod, Mendel Rosenblum, Anoop Gupta. 1-13
• Talisman: Fast and Accurate Multicomputer SimulationRobert C. Bedichek. 14-24 [doi]
• Reducing I/O Demand in Video-On-Demand Storage ServersLeana Golubchik, John C. S. Lui, Richard R. Muntz. 25-36
• On Configuring a Single Disk Continuous Media ServerShahram Ghandeharizadeh, Seon Ho Kim, Cyrus Shahabi. 37-46
• A Traffic Model for MPEG-Coded VBR StreamsMarwan Krunz, Herman D. Hughes. 47-55
• Network Traffic Measurement and Modelling (Panel)Carey L. Williamson, Walter Willinger, Vern Paxson, Benjamin Melamed. 56-57
• G-Networks - New Queueing Models with Additional Control Capabilities (Panel)Erol Gelenbe, Peter G. Harrison, Edwige Pitel, Onno J. Boxma, Jean-Michel Fourneau. 58-59
• Free Performance and Fault Tolerance: Using System Idle Capacity Efficiently (Panel)Srinivasan Tridandapani, Anton T. Dahbura, Arun K. Somani, Charles U. Martel, John Matthews. 60-61
• Data Interpretation and Experiment Planning in Performance Tools (Panel)Allen D. Malony, B. Robert Helm, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Barton P. Miller, Karsten Schwan. 62-63
• A Case for Two-Level Distributed Recovery SchemesNitin H. Vaidya. 64-73
• An Analysis of Decay-Usage Scheduling in MultiprocessorsDick H. J. Epema. 74-85
• Fundamental Results on the Performance of ATM Multiplexers with Applications to Video TeleconferencingAnwar Elwalid, Daniel P. Heyman, T. V. Lakshman, Debasis Mitra, Alan Weiss. 86-97
• Fundamental Limits and Tradeoffs of Providing Deterministic Guarantees to VBR Video TrafficEdward W. Knightly, Dallas E. Wrege, Jörg Liebeherr, Hui Zhang. 98-107
• Exponential Bounds for the Waiting Time Distribution in Markovian Queues, with Applications to TES/GI/I SystemsYoujian Fang, Michael Devetsikiotis, Ioannis Lambadaris, A. Roger Kaye. 108-115
• Optimal Probabilistic Allocation of Customer Types to ServerSem C. Borst. 116-125
• Z-Iteration: A Simple Method for Throughput Estimation in Time-Dependent Multi-Class SystemsIbrahim Matta, A. Udaya Shankar. 126-135
• Striping in a RAID Level 5 Disk ArrayPeter M. Chen, Edward K. Lee. 136-145
• On-Line Extraction of SCSI Disk Drive ParametersBruce L. Worthington, Gregory R. Ganger, Yale N. Patt, John Wilkes. 146-156
• DASD Dancing: A Disk Load Balancing Optimization Scheme for Video-on-Demand ComputerJoel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu, Hadas Shachnai. 157-166
• An Analytic Study of Dynamic Hardware and Software Cache Coherence StrategiesHarjinder S. Sandhu, Kenneth C. Sevcik. 167-177
• SM-prof: A Tool to Visualise and Find Cache Coherence Performance Bottlenecks in Multiprocessor ProgramsMats Brorsson. 178-187
• A Study of Integrated Prefetching and Caching StrategiesPei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Anna R. Karlin, Kai Li. 188-197
• On Characterizing Bandwidth Requirements of Parallel ApplicationsAnand Sivasubramaniam, Aman Singla, Umakishore Ramachandran, H. Venkateswaran. 198-207
• Scheduling Memory Constrained Jobs on Distributed Memory Parallel ComputersCathy McCann, John Zahorjan. 208-219
• Calculating Transient Distributions of Cumulative RewardEdmundo de Souza e Silva, H. Richard Gail, Reinaldo Vallejos Campos. 231-240
• Regenerative Randomization: Theory and Application ExamplesJuan A. Carrasco, Angel Calderón. 241-252
• Computational Techniques for Accurate Performance Evaluation of Multirate, Multihop Communication NetworksAlbert G. Greenberg, R. Srikant. 253-260
• The Internet in Evolution, and TCP Over ATM (Panel)Teunis J. Ott, Robert Braden, T. V. Lakshman, Upamanyu Madhow, C. Brazdziunas, A. Broscius, Arnold L. Neidhardt. 261-262
• Non-Markovian Petri Nets (Panel)Kishor S. Trivedi, Andrea Bobbio, Miklós Telek, Reinhard German, Gianfranco Ciardo, Antonio Puliafito. 263-264
• Performance Impacts of Self-Similarity in Traffic (Panel)Ashok Erramilli, Walter Willinger, T. V. Lakshman, Daniel P. Heyman, Amarnath Mukherjee, San-qi Li, Onuttom Narayan. 265-266
• The Interaction of Parallel and Sequential Workloads on a Network of WorkstationsRemzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Amin Vahdat, Lok T. Liu, Thomas E. Anderson, David A. Patterson. 267-278
• Disk-Tape Joins: Synchronizing Disk and Tape AccessJussi Myllymaki, Miron Livny. 279-290
• An Inter-Reference Gap Model for Temporal Locality in Program BehaviorVidyadhar Phalke, B. Gopinath. 291-300
• Batch Class Process Scheduler for Unix SVR4Jan Braams. 301-302 [doi]
• State Space Reductions Using Stochastic Well-Formed Net Simplifications: An Application to Random Polling SystemsSusanna Donatelli, Giuliana Franceschinis. 303-304
• Approximate Response Time Distribution in Fork and Join SystemsSimonetta Balsamo, Ivan Mura. 305-306
• A Semi-Empirical Approach to Scalability StudyXiaodong Zhang, Zhichen Xu. 307-308
• PEDCAD: A Framework for Performance Evaluation of Object Database ApplicationsEric Hughes, Marianne Winslett. 309-310
• Scheduling for Cache Affinity in Parallelized Communication ProtocolsJames D. Salehi, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley. 311-312
• Modeling and Analysis of Multi Channel Asymmetric Packet Switch Modules in a Bursty and Non-Uniform Traffic EnvironmentAmit K. Chatterjee, Vijay K. Konangi. 313-314
• Timepatch: A Novel Technique for the Parallel Simulation of Multiprocessor CachesGautam Shah, Umakishore Ramachandran, Richard Fujimoto. 315-316
• Future Applicability of Bus-Based Shared Memory MultiprocessorsC. R. M. Sundaram, Derek L. Eager. 317-318
• Modeling A Fibre Channel Switch with Stochastic Petri NetsGianfranco Ciardo, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki. 319-320
• A Prefetching Prototype for the Parallel File System on the ParagonMeenakshi Arunachalam, Alok N. Choudhary, Brad Rullman. 321-323