computer performance / capacity planning meeting - Raleigh NC
Claire Cates
Friday's (April 27) meeting of the Southern Computer Measurement Group in
Raleigh, NC. Register now for a full day of capacity/performance education
and professional networking, along with breakfast and lunch. The meeting
offers topics covering a wide range of topics and interests, including Java
performance, automated exception detection, application performance
management, SAS tuning, and mainframe specialty engines (zAAPs and zIIPs).
register at:
http://regions.cmg.org/regions/scmg/spring_07/raleigh/meeting_04_27_07.htm.
Spring 2007 Raleigh
Time
Session
Presenter(s)
8:00 - 8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00
Vendor Presentation
9:10 - 10:00
Java without the Jitters -- Real Time Java Performance
Curtis Hrischuk, Ph.D.
10:10 - 11:00
System Management by Exception
Igor Trubin
11:10 - 12:00
Best Practices in Application Performance Management
Michael Bacon
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch
12:30 - 1:00
Vendor Presentation
1:00 - 1:50
Improving SAS® Batch Application Service through Tuning and Parallelism
Dan Squillace
2:00 - 2:50
The use of zPCR to plan for Mainframe Specialty Engines (zIIPs and
zAAPs)
Linwood Merritt
3:00 - 3:50
Capacity and Performance Free-for-All and Giveaways
Speakers:
Igor Trubin
Igor started his career in 1979 as an IBM 360/370 system engineer. In 1986
he got his Ph.D. in Robotics at St. Petersburg Technical University (Russia)
and then worked as a professor teaching CAD/CAM, Robotics and Computer
Science for about 12 years at the same University. Igor has published about
30 papers and made several presentations for different international
conferences related to the Robotics, Artificial Intelligent and Computer
fields.
In 1999 he moved to the US and worked at Capital One Services, Inc. in
Richmond as a Capacity Planner. His first CMG paper was written and
presented by him in 2001 in Reno, NV. The next one, "Global and Application
Level Exception Detection System Based on MASF Technique," won a Best Paper
award at US CMG 2002 and was presented again at UKCMG 2003 in Oxford,
England.
His CMG 2004 paper about applying MASF technique to mainframe performance
management was republished in the IBM z/Series Expo. Igor continues to
enhance his exception detection methodologies, and is currently a team lead
for IBM Global Services in Richmond.
Linwood Merritt
Lin started his data processing career in 1970 as a Simulation Analyst and
has been a US CMG member since 1984. He has served as Subject Area Chair,
Assistant Program Chair and Program Chair for CMG and has served as Project
Manager of the "Enterprise Wide Capacity and Performance" project of SHARE
for more than 10 years. Lin is currently Regional Chair of Southern CMG and
Assistant Program Chair for CMG 2007.
Lin has published 17 CMG papers (plus one additional paper for UKCMG 2003)
and presented at 30 SHARE conferences. He won the CMG 1997 Mullen award for
the presentation "Performance Data from the Server to the Intranet: Getting
the Data and Reporting It," and presented it at UKCMG in 1998. He is now
working as a mainframe Capacity Planner at Bank of America in Richmond,
Virginia.
Abstracts:
System Management by Exception,
Igor A. Trubin, IBM Global Services
The Statistical Exception Detection System (SEDS) has been successfully used
for more than six years to automatically produce web-based exception reports
against SAS/ITRM performance data warehouse for a large, multi-platform
environment. The addition of application specific metrics, including
middleware traffic and response times, made SEDS an excellent tool for
application performance management. This session also describes how to
create statistical control charts using a spreadsheet in order to capture a
performance issue without using expensive tools such as SAS or BMC.
The use of zPCR to Plan for Mainframe Specialty Engines (zIIPs and zAAPs)
Linwood Merritt
The zPCR tool is recommended by most mainframe experts for sizing upgrades,
particularly when moving to fewer/faster engines. The use of MIPS tables
shows a wide range of expected capacity depending on which table is used and
how many CPU engines are configured. When specialty engines (zIIPs and
zAAPs) are planned, zPCR is the only way to determine capacity impacts to
the general purpose engines and expected capacity of the specialty engines.
This presentation will lead attendees through a sizing exercise using
different MIPS tables and zPCR, and analyze the use of zAAP engines and
their potential for reducing the number of general purpose engines in the
upgraded configuration.