Modeling Software Contention using Colored Petri Nets

Modeling Software Contention using Colored Petri Nets
Author	Akshay Dabholkar
Abstract	Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, limiting performance improvements. Contention occurs primarily at two levels: (1) blocking on locks shared between threads at the software level and (2) contending for physical resources (such as the cpu or disk) at the hardware level. Given a set of hardware resources and an application design, there is an optimal number of threads
Year of Publication	2008
Conference Name	Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)
Date Published	09/2008
Publisher	IEEE
Conference Location	Baltimore, MD
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