CS 854: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Experimental Performance Evaluation
Fall 2020
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About the Course
- Objectives: An in-depth study of issues, challenges, techniques, and pitfalls associated with conducting experimental performance evaluations. The course will focus on papers related to conducting scientifically sound experimental performance evaluations and drawing valid conclusions from the results. The goal is to help students to critically evaluate performance experiments in existing papers and to design and carry out experimental performance evaluations in their own work.
- Course Meetings: Mostly weekly discussion of 2-3 papers but this format may vary. Some meetings may involve reading and critiquing the experimental performance evaluation performed in the papers read that week. We may perform some case studies, especially if students in the course are planning on conducting performance evaluations for papers or thesis work. This would involve a short presentation that describes a problem being studied and the methodology being used to evaluate the performance and the expected outcomes. The class will then evaluate and discuss the methodology.
- Content: Some of the content may be dictated by the interests of the students.
Background
- statistics
- good communication skills
- systems programming skills (not stricly required)
- operating systems (not stricly required)
- networking (not stricly required)
The systems and networking background are not strictly required but some of the papers and discussion are likely to revolve around computer systems and/or networking research so a bit of a background in those areas might be helpful.
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