CSE 5306 Performance Evaluation Study - Revision history

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−	Students enrolled in CSE ~~5306S~~ will complete a performance analysis study as part of their final project. The goal of this analysis is to measure the performance of your server. These experiments do not need to be performed on your Creative Project. Instead, it is recommended that you focus the performance analysis on the lower-level applications (such as web server and database performance).	+	Students enrolled in CSE 5306 will complete a performance analysis study as part of their final project. The goal of this analysis is to measure the performance of your server. These experiments do not need to be performed on your Creative Project. Instead, it is recommended that you focus the performance analysis on the lower-level applications (such as web server and database performance).

	== Reading ==		== Reading ==

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−	Students enrolled in CSE ~~530S~~ will complete a performance analysis study as part of their final project. The goal of this analysis is to measure the performance of your server. These experiments do not need to be performed on your Creative Project. Instead, it is recommended that you focus the performance analysis on the lower-level applications (such as web server and database performance).	+	Students enrolled in CSE 5306S will complete a performance analysis study as part of their final project. The goal of this analysis is to measure the performance of your server. These experiments do not need to be performed on your Creative Project. Instead, it is recommended that you focus the performance analysis on the lower-level applications (such as web server and database performance).

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 #* Experimental results contain multiple data points ( 5 pts)
 #* At least two different types of data are recorded (6 pts)
-#* A well formatted graph (not a table) of the experimental results for each type of data recorded (4 pts). If you have questions about what is expected here, please ask the instructor
+#* A well-formatted graph (not a table) of the experimental results for each type of data recorded (4 pts). I expect to see four graphs in total for your report. Two graphs per experiment. If you have questions about what is expected here, please ask the instructor
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 #* Experimental setup clearly explained  (5 pts)
 #* Experimental results contain multiple data points ( 5 pts)
-#* At least two different types of data is recorded (6 pts)
+#* At least two different types of data are recorded (6 pts)
-#* A graph (not a table) of the experimental results for each type of data recorded (4 pts)
+#* A well formatted graph (not a table) of the experimental results for each type of data recorded (4 pts). If you have questions about what is expected here, please ask the instructor
 # '''Write-up (20 Points):

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 #* Experimental results contain multiple data points ( 5 pts)
 #* At least two different types of data is recorded (6 pts)
-#* A graph of the experimental results for each type of data recorded (4 pts)
+#* A graph (not a table) of the experimental results for each type of data recorded (4 pts)
 # '''Write-up (20 Points):

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 *For each experiment collect data for a range of settings/inputs/configurations and at least two types of data.
-**An experiment using Apache Benchmark (ab) would be interested in the pages/sec and the mean time per request
+**An experiment using Apache Benchmark (ab) would be interested in the requests/sec and time per request
 **When evaluating a MySQL database, one could measure both reads/sec and writes/sec to a database

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 * Choose two types of experiments to perform on your web server. The types of experiments you should run are largely dependent on the type web application you are developing.  Ask the instructor if you are unclear on what types of experiments to perform. Below is a small list of potential experiments to consider.
-** Apache web server performance evaluation on different AWS instance types [http://infoheap.com/ab-apache-bench-load-testing/] [https://www.joedog.org/siege-manual/][https://kalamuna.atlassian.net/wiki/display/KALA/Testing+With+Apache+Benchmark+and+Siege]
+** Apache web server performance evaluation on different AWS instance types [http://infoheap.com/ab-apache-bench-load-testing/] [https://www.joedog.org/siege-manual/][https://kalamuna.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KALA/pages/16023587/Load+Testing+With+Apache+Benchmark+and+Siege]
 **MySQL Performance evaluation on different AWS instance types
 **Apache and Nginx comparison on the same AWS instance type [https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-benchmark-stress-your-apache-nginx-or-iis-server.html]

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 **Apache and Nginx comparison on the same AWS instance type [https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-benchmark-stress-your-apache-nginx-or-iis-server.html]
 **MongoDB performance evaluation on different instance types [https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/07/14/mongodb-benchmark-sysbench-mongodb-io-bound-workload-comparison/] [https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/performance-testing-mongodb-30-part-1-throughput-improvements-measured-ycsb]
-**Node.js and Apache+PHP comparison on the same AWS instance type [http://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/comparing-node-js-vs-php-performance/]
+**Node.js and Apache+PHP comparison on the same AWS instance type
 **Apache Web Server performance with and without optimizations and tuning [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-apache-content-caching-on-ubuntu-14-04][https://doc.owncloud.org/server/8.0/admin_manual/configuration_server/performance_tuning.html]
 **PHP performance with and without caching [http://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-opcache/]

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−	Students enrolled in CSE 530S will complete a performance analysis study as part of their final project. The goal of this analysis is to measure the performance of your web ~~application~~.	+	Students enrolled in CSE 530S will complete a performance analysis study as part of their final project. The goal of this analysis is to measure the performance of your server. These experiments do not need to be performed on your Creative Project. Instead, it is recommended that you focus the performance analysis on the lower-level applications (such as web server and database performance).

	== Reading ==		== Reading ==