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We're pleased to announce the Spring conference of The Computer
Measurement Group's DEC Systems Subgroup (CMG/D) to be held in
Dayton, OH, on April 22nd.

The conference will feature a DEC Track including 5 sessions on
DEC Capacity Planning and Performance.  The sessions include:

. Stress Testing a Non-Existant Application - Jack Brey, Navistar,
  discusses modeling and benchmark testing to cheese between use of
  a CASE tool and ACMS for a new major application.  The case study
  discusses analytical modeling and benchmarking on a VAX 9000.

. Business Use of Transactions and Response Time in VMS - Matthew
  Sullivan, BGS Systems, talks about how business (user) needs can
  only be serviced by providing enough computing capacity to complete
  the required work in the required time.  This session will discuss
  some methodologies for measuring and ensuring adequate response
  time in the VMS environment.

. Performance Characteristics of a Client/Server Transaction Processing
  Model - Dave Butchart, DEC, examines the performance characteristics
  of a TP monitor (VAX/ACMS) implemented using a client/server distributed
  architecture in the VAX VMS environment.  Performance related
  implementation and tuning options made possible by client/server
  architecture will also be explored.

. Implementing Capacity Planning for a VAX Cluster - Steve Weisman and
  Jack Gunther, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, This presentation outlines the
  process taken to implement capacity planning for a VAX cluster using only
  the standard DEC VMS performance monitors and tools.  VMS Monitor utility
  for growth trending is illustrated.  Additonally, Image-level accounting
  and ALL-IN-1 Metering utilities are examined to perform a detailed
  workload characterization and develop planning metrics.

. Capacity Planning in a VAX/VMS Environment - Case Studies - Roger Grant
  DEC, Several case studies of capacity planning n a VAX/VMS environment
  will be presented.  The studies will illustrate real solutions to capacity
  planning in a large VAXcluster, a client-server application, and an SMP
  environment.

This session will be held at the Fairborn Holiday Inn in Fairborn, OH.
The cost is $65.00 per person, including lunch.  ($80.00, after April 6)

To register contact:

Annette Roth
17x CMG
P.O. Box 2816
Cincinnati, OH 45201-2816

For more info about this meeting or CMG/D, feel free to contact me at:
703-902-5173
or Voice Mail 1-800-862-4511, box number: 5173
Gunther_Jack@bethesda.bah.pc.niaid.nih.gov
Jack.gunther@p0.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org

Hope to see you there!

CMG and CMG/D are non-profit organizations dedicated to furthering the state
of the art in capacity planning and computer performance measurement and to
sharing information and ideas within the professional community.