Workshop on Distributed Embedded Systems, Lorentz Center, 21

1
Workshop on Distributed Embedded Systems,
Lorentz Center, 2124 Nov.05

• Practical sessions
• on 23 and 24 November 2005

2
Objectives

• Get an overview of the existing performance
  analysis (PA) methods
• Classify methods based on criteria such as scope,
  accuracy, modeling effort, etc.
• Understand limitations of the methods and define
  future research directions
• Form a pool of performance analysis problems for
  testing of different PA methods.

3
Agenda Wednesday 23. Nov.

• Session 1 Presentation of Methods I
• Break
• Session 2 Presentation of Methods II
• Lunch
• Session 3 Identification of Test Problems
  for Performance Analysis
• Break
• Session 4 Work in Groups I

4
Agenda Thursday 24. Nov.

• Session 1 Presentation of Groupwork I
• Morning Work in Groups II
• Lunch
• Session 3 Presentation of Groupwork II
• Break
• Session 4 Discussion and Comparison
• of PA Methods Further Steps

5
Agenda Wednesday 23. Nov.

• Session 1 Presentation of Methods I
• Break
• Session 2 Presentation of Methods II
• Lunch
• Session 3 Identification of Test Problems
  for Performance Analysis
• Break
• Session 4 Work in Groups I

6
PA method presentation

• A 10-min talk with 5-min questions.
• Suggested contents
• A brief introduction giving an overview of the
  method
• A case study demonstrating modeling power and
  scalability of the method
• A summary of limitations and strengths of the
  method the class of systems that the method can
  analyze.

7
Agenda Wednesday 23. Nov.

• Session 1 Presentation of Methods I
• Break
• Session 2 Presentation of Methods II
• Lunch
• Session 3 Identification of Test Problems
  for Performance Analysis
• Break
• Session 4 Work in Groups I

8
Test problems

• Build a pool of test problems.
• Problem types
• Small problems
• Expose one analysis problem or modeling
  difficulty.
• Challenging (even for your own method), or
• Simple to serve for comparison of different PA
  methods
• Really small, e.g. involving only few
  tasks/nodes.
• Large problems
• Reveal scalability.
• Realistic application scenarios.

9
ToDo List

• If you want to present a method
• Write an email to maxiagui_at_tik.ee.ethz.ch
• Prepare a Presentation.
• If you want to propose problems
• Send them to us. (PDF/PPT)(before Wednesday 10AM)

10
Webpage

• The collected material will be available here
• www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/leiden05