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Readings for next week

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From: Anastassia Ailamaki <natassa+@cs.cmu.edu>
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Here are the readings for next week, from the following list (also in
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15721-f01/www/readings.html#pe
rf):

Monday11/26: background reading from the benchmark handbook (book on the web
from
        http://www.benchmarkresources.com/handbook/) chpts 1 and 3, and
        paper #1 below by Anon et. al. (in red book)

Wednesday 11/28: Paper #3 (skim 4 and 5) (links in
        
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15721-f01/www/readings.html#pe
rf)

Enjoy the holiday,
Natassa

Benchmarking and Performance 

Background: Gray's Benchmark handbook(on the web!), Chapters 1 and 3  

1. Anon et al., "A Measure of Transaction Processing Power" (in red book),
Datamation, 31(7), 1985 (*) 
2. Eisenberg, A., and Melton, J., Standards in Practice, ACM SIGMOD Record,
September 1998 
3. A. Ailamaki, D. J. DeWitt, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood, DBMSs on a Modern
Processor: Where Does Time Go?, Proceedings of the VLDB Conference,
September 1999 (*) 
4. Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Sarita V. Adve, and Luiz
Andre Barroso, of Database Workloads on Shared-Memory Systems with
Out-of-Order Processors, Proceedings of ASPLOS, pages 307-318, 1998. 
5. Luiz Andre Barroso, Kourosh Gharachorloo, and Edouard Bugnion, Memory
System Characterization of Commercial Workloads, Proceedings of the 25th
Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pages 3-14, June
1998.