TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling reentrant and nonreentrant software
AU - Agre, Jon R.
AU - Tripathi, Satish K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 1982 ACM.
PY - 1982/8/30
Y1 - 1982/8/30
N2 - A description of software module models for computer systems is presented. The software module models are based on a two level description, the software level and the hardware level, of the computer system. In the software module level it is possible to model performance effects of software traits such as reentrant and nonreentrant type software modules. The resulting gueueing network models are, in general, not of the product form class and approximation schemes are employed as solution techniques. An example of a software module model of a hypothetical computer system is presented. The model is solved with a simulation program and three approximation schemes. The approximation results were compared with the simulation results and some schemes are found to produce good estimates of the effects of changing from reentrant to nonreentrant software modules.
AB - A description of software module models for computer systems is presented. The software module models are based on a two level description, the software level and the hardware level, of the computer system. In the software module level it is possible to model performance effects of software traits such as reentrant and nonreentrant type software modules. The resulting gueueing network models are, in general, not of the product form class and approximation schemes are employed as solution techniques. An example of a software module model of a hypothetical computer system is presented. The model is solved with a simulation program and three approximation schemes. The approximation results were compared with the simulation results and some schemes are found to produce good estimates of the effects of changing from reentrant to nonreentrant software modules.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85029200052
U2 - 10.1145/1035293.1035318
DO - 10.1145/1035293.1035318
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 0897910796
SN - 9780897910798
T3 - Proceedings of the 1982 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 1982
SP - 163
EP - 178
BT - Proceedings of the 1982 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 1982
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 1982 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 1982
Y2 - 30 August 1982 through 1 September 1982
ER -