validation of a computer performance model of the exponential queuing network family
Beginning in mid-1974, the Data Management Center of the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare undertook to validate an analytic model of computer performance in the context of a large multiprogrammed configuration operating under a variety of actual production workload conditions. A primary goal of this validation effort was to test the adequacy of the framework offered by the exponential queuing network model schema (as developed by Buzen, et al.) in representing real world situations with sufficient accuracy to be useful as a general tool in support of long range planning. The purpose of this paper is to report on the results of that validation effort.
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