SMART model: a tool for performance evaluation

Author

Ingerman, Donald ; Lydon, Margaret S.

Author_Institution

IBM Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

12-15 Oct 1997

Firstpage

1820

Abstract

The SMART (System Modeling Analysis and Research Tool) model is a tool to support the performance evaluation process. It was determined that it was necessary to have a tool that could predict the performance impact, on the system level, of various hardware and software changes, additions, or enhancements. Therefore, an effort was undertaken to create a system model of the PC Server environment. The SMART model is the result of this effort. The initial version of the SMART model was a simulation model of a PS/2* with a Direct Access Storage Device (DASD) subsystem running OS/2*. The purpose of this project was to create a tool that would predict the performance of various DASD subsystems on PS/2 platforms. The SMART model was developed to achieve this purpose. To ensure that the model depicted actual hardware and software the debugged model was validated against measurements taken on a PS/2 system running OS/2

Keywords

file servers; performance evaluation; simulation; systems analysis; Direct Access Storage Device; FAT file system; PC Server environment; PS/2 platforms; SMART model; hardware; performance evaluation tool; software; system modeling analysis; Application software; Assembly systems; Disk drives; Hardware; Local area networks; Modeling; Operating systems; Software performance; System performance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4053-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1997.638299

Filename

638299