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                     A 2-day workshop in ** AUSTRALIA **

              PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND CAPACITY PLANNING
                                   FOR
                        DISTRIBUTED OPEN SYSTEMS

                              presented by
                              
                          Dr. Neil J. Gunther
                          
                      Computer Dynamics Consulting
                        Mountain View, California
                        
        SYDNEY Hotel InterContinental, October 14 and 15, 1996 
        MELBOURNE Stamford Plaza Hotel, October 17 and 18, 1996
     
     
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details.

or contact Capacity Management Pty. Ltd.
FON: 02-9362-0255
NET: 100236.2417@compuserve.com
about registration fee, and seating availability.  

For those without Web access, a brief Course Outline follows:

This seminar will benefit IT executives, project managers,
application developers, performance analysts, capacity planners and other
technical staff who need to understand and cope with the rapidly changing
nature
of performance management in modern distributed computing systems.

DAY 1
Open Distributed Computing
. Understanding client/server
. The central problem
. Distributed Unix
- Unix architecture
- Unix networking
. Multiprocessor Servers
- Platform architectures
- Platform scalability
- Potential for parallelism
Distributed Performance Tools
. Unix Server Tools
- Bundled performance tools
- Bundled network tools
. Performance Standards
- SNMP
- UMA
. Commercial Tools
- Patrol
- EcoTools
- HP Measureware
- Amdahl A+UMA
- Landmark PerformanceWorks
- BGS BEST/1 for Unix
- Metron Athene/Unix
. Tuning and Sizing Roadmaps

DAY 2
Performance Modelling Techniques
- Elements of queuing models
- Systems of Queues
- Joining queues together
- Models of computer systems
- Prediction methods
- Types of tools
Application to Distributed Systems
. MP Server Benchmarks
. MP Sizing Techniques
- Using benchmark data 
- Moving across platforms
- Replacing an IBM 600S
. Client/Server Capacity Study
- 3-tier architecture
. Layered Applications
- Oracle financials
- SAP/R3
. Summary and Review