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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance. I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). In the thread, Steve Souders suggested that someone should revisit the Golden Rule to see if it still holds for today. 1,001 - 10,000 12.5%

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).