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Professional Societies

• ACM SIGSIM: SIG concerned with modeling and simulation
• The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (formerly The Society for Computer Simulation).
• Computer Measurement Group: focused on performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Journals

• ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
• Performance Evaluation
• Operations Research
• TRANSACTIONS of the Society for Computer Simulation International

Conferences

• SIGMETRICS: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
• MASCOTS: IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
• WOSP2000: International Workshop on Software and Performance
• SPECTS (2007): International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
• JSSPP: Workshops on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
• IISWC/WWC (2006): IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
• CAECW (2006): Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads

Data (Traces and Logs)

• Parallel Workloads Archive with workload log files from various large parallel machines.
• HPC Workload/Resource Trace Respository from supercluster.org.
• The BYU Performance Evaluation Laboratory Trace Distribution Center, with address, instruction, and disk I/O traces.
• New Mexico State Univ Trace Database: address traces for processor architecture studies.
• The Internet Traffic Archive
• NLANR Internet traces
• CPU info center. Detailed info on CPU structure is important for understanding performance.
• Real random numbers from an analog source
• Statistics data from a multitude of non-computer fields

Benchmarks

• SPEC: organization defining benchmarks, notably for CPU performance.
• lmbench: characterizing the performance of a computing platform (processor, memory, etc.)
• NetPerf: benchmark and results for network performance.
• AC&NC I/O benchmarks page, with links to many I/O benchmarks for Unix, DOS, and Windows.
• ParkBench: benchmark for parallel systems.
• Effective bandwidth benchmark.
• IETF Benchmarking Methodology Working Group. Definitions and procedures for benchmarking.
• The TPC benchmark.
• Compilation of industry benchmark results
• The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems, Jim Gray (ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd Edition, 1993.

Software

• Ploticus data display engine
• Paradyn parallel performance tools from U Wisconsin -- dynamic instrumentation of programs.
• Pablo performance analysis toolkit from U Illinois
• DiskSim disk system simulator.
• Mersenne Twister random number generator
• |STAT data manipulation and analysis programs by Gary Perlman.
• Various tools for variate creation, simulation, etc. by Ken Christensen
• ExpertFit distribution fitting software
• Various software from Palisade, with a bias towards business applications, decision support, etc.
• S-PLUS data analysis and visualization
• Design-Expert 6 from Stat-Ease for experimental design and analysis.
• Statistics.Com: Links to lots of on-line statistics resources, including software

Educational Material

• Quantitative System Performance: the classic text by Lazowska, Zahorjan, Graham, and Sevcik
• Simulation Education HomePage by Bill Yurcik. An amazing web page, with a wealth of resources for teaching/learning about simulation (including software, books, links to courses, etc.)
• The queueing theory tutor with cute animation.
• Queueing Theory Page by Myron Hlynka
• Second Moment -- applied statistics site
• David Lane's HyperStat online book