Lessons from Teaching Analytical Performance Modeling
Yong Chiang Tay · 2019
This talk summarizes some lessons from teaching a course in analytical performance modeling, specifically: (1) what can an analytical model offer? (2) how a model can be decomposed into submodels,so as to decouple different forces affecting performance, and thus analyze their interaction; (3) making choices in formulating a model; (4) the role of assumptions; (5) Average Value Approximation (AVA); (6) when bottleneck analysis suffices; (7) reducing the parameter space; (8) the concept of analytic validation; and (9) analysis with an analytical model.