Capacity Planning

Significant Figures in R and Rounding

April 16, 2010 | Neil Gunther

This is a follow-on to my previous post about determining significant digits, or sigdigs, in performance and capacity planning calculations. Once we know how to do that, inevitably we will be faced with rounding the result of a calculation to the least...
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Significant Figures in R and Info Zeros

April 11, 2010 | Neil Gunther

The other day, I stumbled upon the signif function in R, so I thought I'd take a look at what it does and compare it with some results discussed in Chap. 3 "Damaging Digits in Capacity Calculations" of my GCaP book, viz., Example 3.5 on page 31. The m...
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

January 21, 2010 | Ed Borasky

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Negative Scalability Coefficients in Excel

May 12, 2009 | Neil Gunther

Recently, several performance engineers, who have been applying my universal scalability law (USL) to their throughput measurements, reported a problem whereby their Excel spreadsheet calculations produced a negative value for the coherency parameter (...
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Rails, Scalability and Sexism

April 29, 2009 | Ed Borasky

It’s been a long time since I posted here, for a number of reasons: Change of focus from Ruby programming to Linux capacity planning, especially in the realm of I/O subsystems. You’ll find more about that at http://linuxcapacityplanning.com... [Read more...]

PDQ 5.0 is on the Launch Pad

April 4, 2009 | Neil Gunther

PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick) major release 5.0 is on the launch pad at Cape SourceForge. Because of a potential collision with the North Korean ICBM/satellite launch, we won't be filling the main liquid-hydrogen tank until next week (we don't want PDQ blame...
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