CMG Canada Seminar:  March 6th 2001 (Toronto)

 

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TIME: 8:00a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

LOCATION: SAS Canada Inc.

BCE Place

181 Bay Street, Suite 2220

 

Enter the Bay-Wellington Tower of BCE via the Bay or Wellington Street doors and take an elevator to the 22nd floor.

ATTIRE: Business attire or Business casual (hard-soled shoes, slacks, collared shirt)

 

If this program is not of interest to you, please pass it on to the appropriate group within your organization  ...  or have them visit

CMG Canada at www.cmg.org/regions/cacmg

 

Final Agenda:  Tuesday March 6th 2001

 

8:00 AM    Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 AM    President's Welcome - Anthony G. Mungal

 

8:40 AM    Windows NT/2000/9x Performance

Jeff Lawson – Cogent Logic Corporation

The only way to know what your computers are doing is to measure them. Windows-based computers are no exception so Microsoft has incorporated performance counters into Windows NT/2000 that comprehensively track how the host hardware plus the system software behave. On Windows 95/98/Me the performance counters are pretty crude but nonetheless what’s there serve as useful indicators. This presentation is a concise summary of the performance characteristics of Windows operating systems. Emphasis will be given to those performance counters that are required for troubleshooting, load-balancing and capacity planning. At the close you will have a clear understanding of how to use performance monitoring tools to better configure Windows systems.

 

Jeff Lawson frequently teaches a wide variety of courses at Learning Tree, the world’s largest provider of IT training. He has spent the past twenty years in the computer industry, at times developing shrink-wrapped software, and at other times involved with network administration. Jeff is an MCSE and MCSD and the CEO of Cogent Logic Corporation a software development and consulting company that, amongst other things, develops shrink-wrapped performance analysis software.

                                                                                                                                                                                               

9:40 AM    Coffee

 

9:55 AM    Insights into WWW Server Performance using Busy-Period Analysis

                        Pierre Fiorini – BMC Software

 

Over the last few years the growth of the World Wide Web has been enormous. The number of WWW sites is growing exponentially. WWW applications such as electronic commerce and video conferencing, etc., all increase Internet traffic. One problem faced by WWW server administrators is adequate sizing and planning of their facilities such that they can provide the Quality of Service (QoS) required by end-users. One issue concerning Web server planning arises when attempting to formulate a model that characterizes WWW server performance. The reason is that, in many instances, it has been empirically demonstrated that WWW server file transfer times and sizes are consistent with that of heavy-tailed or power-tailed distributions [2, 3]. A consequence of this high-variability is its potentially enormous impact on the performance of the WWW server. In this paper we discuss approaches on how to model this behavior. The models are subsequently analyzed using steady-state and busy-period analysis.  Finally, we conclude by arguing that when heavy-tailed or power-tailed behavior is observed in WWW servers, then busy-period analysis provides additional insight into system behavior; consequently, this aids in WWW server capacity planning.

 

Pierre Fiorini is a Principal Engineer at BMC Software. His duties at BMC include developing mathematical models for predicting computer system performance. He did his undergraduate work at Colby College and Trinity College, and holds the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Connecticut where he specialized in queueing theory and computer performance modeling.

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10:55 AM Break

 

11:10 AM       Inside Lotus Domino Server

Saqib Syed – BMC Software

 

Lotus Domino Server has been a leading software for GroupWare applications for a few years now. So far, a detailed investigation of the architectural details of a Domino server from a performance perspective has not appeared. We try to analyze the architecture of Lotus Domino Server 4.6.4 and 5.0. Benchmarks are run on both versions 4.6.4 and ver 5.0 and a brief comparison of performance of these two versions is provided. Some recommendations on software upgrades and users/server are provided for the users based on the results of these benchmarks.

 

Saqib Syed is a Software Consulting Engineer at BMC Software, Inc. Saqib has been responsible for R&D of collection technology on Windows NT and modeling messaging/Groupware applications & e-business. He worked at DEC as a performance analyst and at CA as a Software Architect. His paper on Microsoft Exchange won the Best Paper award at CMG 99. Saqib has a Bachelor's in Computer Science & Engineering from Bangalore University, India and a Master's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

12:10 PM  Adjourn CMG Meeting

 

12:30 PM  Members Lunch at nearby restaurant (paid by CMG Canada)

 

2:30 PM    Adjourn

 

Dates to Remember:

                            CMG Canada 2-Day Seminar April 17/18, 2001