1. Workshop on Distributed Embedded Systems, Lorentz Center, 21–24 Nov.05
Practical sessions
on 23 and 24 November 2005
December 30, 2018

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
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
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
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 to
Prepare a Presentation.
If you want to propose problems:
Send them to us. (PDF/PPT) (before Wednesday 10AM)

10. Webpage: www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~leiden05
The collected material will be available here: