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Connecticut Computer Measurement Group
Spring CCMG Membership Meeting & Vendor Day Agenda
Radisson Hotel, Cromwell - Friday, April 4, 2003
Every year in April, CCMG has the opportunity to invite 10 vendors
to join our membership for a day of technical discussions. Vendors
will have their own adjacent room where they will be able to meet
the membership and display their products and services during registration,
between sessions, and after lunch. We welcome the following participating
vendors and thank them for their support:
AXIOS Products, BMC , Candle, Compuware, HDS, ISM, Metron, STK, Tivoli,
& XIOTech.
The day's agenda has been developed after a very strong effort by
the board of directors. The Board reached out to find those issues
that are in everyone's data center and especially piling up on our
desks. Go on and look through the day's activities and I am sure you
will agree.
Agenda:
08:00-08:30 Registration and Coffee
08:30-08:45 Introductory Remarks
Capacity Planning Track
08:45-10:00 Capacity Planning in the Development Cycle
John Pilch - Performance Capacity Solutions
The key success factors for the forecasting task are the established
and documented relation between business activity and data processing
activity, and the ability to determine the resource consumption demands
of new applications. The focus of this presentation is new application
planning, and it defines the relationship between the development
process and the capacity planning function.
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10:00 Break - Vendor Area Open
10:30-11:45 Workload Characterization and Capacity Planning for DB2
UDB
Yefin Somin - BMC
DB2 UDB is a complex, multi-tier, distributed database with parallel
execution features. To track resource use and performance of many
applications and users putting a load on this environment requires
acquisition and processing of data from different sources. This paper
describes architectural features of DB2 UDB relevant for workload
analysis and an approach to producing workload characterization for
performance management and capacity planning.
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Performance Tuning Track
08:45-10:00 Performance Analysis and Tuning for DB2/UDB and Oracle
Tom Foxon - Metron Corporation
This paper is based on the Author's experiences in performance analysis
and tuning for DB2 UDB on distributed platforms. The paper is intended
as an introduction to DB2 performance, particularly for those who
already have a grasp of relational database concepts through products
like SQL Server or Oracle. The paper compares and contrasts DB2 and
Oracle, describes the primary sources of DB2 performance and resource
consumption data, and covers memory management, physical data storage,
indexing & sorting, and locking. The paper concludes with a summary
of some new features expected in DB2.
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10:00 Break - Vendor Area Open
10:30-11:45 Disk Performance Modeling Lab
John Gatch - STK
Disk is still the slowest resource in computing architecture and
therefore the obvious bottleneck. This session developes the case
for understanding application response time by identifying expected
disk service.
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11:45-01:00 Lunch (Provided) - Dessert served in the Vendor Area
Combined Sessions
01:00-2:15 Predicting Service Level Performance
Bob Yellin - Tivoli Systems
This site under construction. Come back soon for the updated abstract!
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02:15 Break - Vendor Area Open
Raffle Drawings for Prizes (Be there to win!)
02:45 - 4:00 Performance Analysis of a Distributed Unix / os390 Workload
Bob Chaney - Delta Technologies
Distributed workloads that span technical architectures make performance
analysis more complicated than ever. This paper chronicles a key distributed
workload that spans TPF, HP-UX and OS390. What at first seemed like
a straightforward CPU analysis became a study of network packet rates,
parallel system design and Disk IO, with a bit of WLM Goal Mode for
good measure.
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