Issues in Evaluating Performance and Power/Energy of Computers,?Measurement Tools and techniques, Trace Driven and Execution Driven Simulation, ?Benchmarks, CPU-intensive, Commercial and database, web server,?Workload Characterization (Quantitative and Analytical), Characterization of Emerging Applications, Statistical techniques for Performance Evaluation, Trace Generation and Validation, Synthetic Traces, Verification of Simulators, Design of Experiments, Analytical Modeling of Processors, Statistical modeling, Hybrid Techniques- Application of queuing.
