Experimental Computer Science Lab (Sci 252)
Funded by NSF ILI-DUE 9751724
Primary objective:
To support hands-on projects and experiments in systems area courses
Equipment:
19 Pentium II PCs (dual-boot Windows NT and Solaris)
2 dual-CPU Pentium II PCs (dual-boot Windows NT and Solaris)
2 Sun Ultra-5 Workstations
laser printer
Available Software:
Shade trace generation toolkit
Message Passing Interface (MPI)
Simplescalar architecture toolkit
Projects and publications:
Experiences Integrating Research Tools and Projects into Computer Architecture Courses,
27th Int. Symp. on Computer Architecture, Workshop on Computer Architecture Education
June 2000, to appear
CSc 656 Computer Organization: MPI Experiments, Fall '98
CSc 645 Computer Networks: Sockets Programming, Spring '99
CSc 856 Advanced Computer Architecture: Comparing Branch Predictors, Spring '99
Measurement and Modeling of Disk Subsystem Performance
SFSU-CS-TR-99.12
Performance Modeling of Computer Systems Processing Disk I/O Workloads
SFSU-CS-TR-99.07
Performance Analysis of Disk Subsystems for Microsoft Windows NT and Solaris Operating Systems
SFSU-CS-TR-99.08
Performance Analysis and Comparison of Linux Redhat 5.2, Solaris 7, and Windows NT 4.5 Operating Systems on Intel X86 Platform
SFSU-CS-TR-99.09
Benchmark Program Generator for Compiler Performance Analysis
SFSU-CS-TR-99.11