Instructor: Norm Hutchinson, http://cs.ubc.ca/~norm

Course Webpage: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~norm/cs538a/index.html

Coursework resources:

• Intel Programmers Reference Manuals

• Intel VanderPool Technology
  

• My class presentation paper (28th March 2006): Analysis of the Intel Pentium's Ability to Support
  a Secure Virtual Machine Monitor, In Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Security Symposium,
  Denver, Colorado, USA, August 14-17,2000.

• My notes on this paper for class discussion.
  

Project Proposal: Can virtual machine network simulate real network?
Final Project Report: How good is Xen for simulating distributed applications?

Papers/Resources related to the course project
( I keep messing up with my favourites, hence ...) :

• Aravind Menon, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, G. (John) Janakiraman, Willy Zwaenepoel, Diagnosing Performance Overheads in the Xen Virtual Machine Environment,
  First ACM/Usenix Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'05),
  Chicago, Illinois, June 11-12, 2005.5 [pdf].
• XenoProf Homepage: http://xenoprof.sourceforge.net/
• Author's Presentation Slides: http://www.xensource.com/files/xs0106_xenoprof.pdf
• Oprofile Homepage : http://oprofile.sourceforge.net
• OProfile Documentation: http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
  Note for FC5 on a P-III:
  1. Use version oprofile-0.8.2.tar.gz
  2. Run "yum install kernel-debuginfo"
3.Run this script:

  #! /bin/bash
  # simple-minded script to avoid typing in all the commands
  
  sudo opcontrol --shutdown
  sudo opcontrol --reset
  sudo opcontrol --setup \
          --vmlinux=/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux \
          --event=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:860000:0:1:1 --separate=library
  sudo opcontrol --start
  $@
  sudo opcontrol --shutdown

• On my PIV, I used something like this:-
  

  opcontrol --shutdown

  opcontrol --reset

  opcontrol --setup \
  --vmlinux=/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux \

  --event=GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS:86000 --separate=library

  opcontrol --start
  opcontrol --shutdown
  

• Oprofile FAQ: http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/OProfileFAQ.txt
  
• XenMon: QoS Monitoring and Performance Profiling Tool
• NetPerf Homepage: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html
• PovRay http://www.povray.org/download/linux.php
• Benchmarking tools: http://www.usinglinux.org/benchmarks/
• IPerf: http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
• Thrulay: http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/thrulay/
• RDTSC Example: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~kazutomo/rdtsc.html
• Using the RDTSC Instruction for Performance Monitoring

• Playing with RDTSC: 
  http://pb.specialised.info/all/articles/playing_with_rdtsc.txt
  

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