http://www.cmg.org/measureit/ MeasureIT Feed en-us Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT webmaster@cmg.org webmaster@cmg.org http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_1.html Cockcroft Headroom Plot - Part 3 - Histogram Fixes August, 2008 by Adrian Cockcroft About the Author There were some scaling issues with the histograms that needed fixing. Ultimately this made the code look a lot more complex, but it now deals with scaling the plot and the histogram with a fixed zero origin on both axes. It’s important to maintain the zero origin for a throughput vs. response tim ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT Feature http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_1.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_2.html Threads - The Ugly August, 2008 by Claire Cates Today, processors are getting faster, but not at the rate that they were in past years. Since processor speed is not increasing as rapidly, the primary way to increase the speed of an application is to take advantage of the multi-core and multi-processor machines that are now the norm. To accomplish this, an application must become multi-threaded. U ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT Feature http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_2.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_4.html Reinvent Your Job August, 2008 by Denise P. Kalm , DPK Coaching and CA, Inc. About the Author Is every day at work a bad day? Are you suffering from burnout at work? Do you even know what it looks like? Burnout can present as feelings of: - powerlessness - hopelessness - exhaustion - detachment - irritability - frustration - failure - despair - cynicism - apathy Or perhaps you are just bored. Or ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT Feature http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_4.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_5.html Preparing for Your Final Career: Retirement Inflation August, 2008 by Dr. Thomas E. Bell , CMG Member, Michelson Awardee (Retired) About the Author The stock market is doing its classical thing: Climb, climb, and then slip backward dramatically. History tells us that, after a year or two, it will likely climb back up again. However, another financial situation promises to get worse, and then stay ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT Feature http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_5.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_6.html Connecticut CMG Summer Meeting 2008 August, 2008 by Jane Shipman Connecticut CMG's June 20th Summer Meeting had a diverse set of presentations beginning with a local favorite, George Handera of Aetna , presenting Z10 Processors ~ A Customer Experience . Several folks came specifically to hear George's first hand experience with the new generation of mainframe processors during the hardware ESP. H ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT News http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_6.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_7.html Northern California CMG Power It Up in Pleasanton August, 2008 by Denise P. Kalm , Secretary, NCCMG About the Author A nice crowd gathered again at the Carr America Conference Center, from locations as far away as South Bay and Sacramento. A power theme in some of the presentations caused us to dim the lights at times and consider our energy usage for the day. Frank Bereznay, Kaiser Permanente, p ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT News http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_7.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_8.html Saint Louis - CMG - The Gateway Region August, 2008 by Wayne Bell The summer meeting of the Saint Louis CMG was held on August 12. The host, Met Life - Saint Louis, was again a gracious host to the 31 attendees. The meeting began with a presentation by John Meisenbacher who continued the trend of excellent Show-and-Tell presentations from local CMG members. He gave us a non-traditional method of ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT News http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_8.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_9.html Southern California CMG Summer Meeting August, 2008 by Frank Bereznay The Southern California CMG held its summer meeting at the SAS facility in Irvine on August 8. We are very fortunate to have sponsors like SAS that support our region. We had an abbreviated summer meeting with two morning speakers, Rick Ralston and Frank Bereznay. Rick presented his CMG paper on creating heat charts with SAS Gr ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT News http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_9.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_10.html CMG'08 Update August, 2008 by Jaqui Lynch , CMG'08 General Chair About the Author The conference committee is truly excited. Agenda Scheduling Weekend was the end of July and we have put together what we think is an incredible program for you. Right now we have the program set and our authors are busy uploading the final, edited copies of their papers. Between our regular sessions, keynote, plena ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT News http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_10.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_11.html August CMG Regional Meetings August, 2008 by Tom Kelman Four regional meetings are on the schedule for September. If you are in or near one of these regions, plan on attending a meeting to pick up some great pointers. You will also get to network with some of your fellow performance analysts and capacity planners. The date, time, cost, and location of the meetings are listed below. Visit each reg ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT News http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_11.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_12.html MeasureIT - From the Editors August, 2008 by Rick Ralston, Managing Editor MeasureIT is published as a free service to both members and non-members alike, so be sure to share this link with friends and colleagues. Claire Cates continues with part 3 of Threads: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly . This month's issue will cover The Ugly. After completing a new threaded application or finishing the thre ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT News http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_12.html http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_3.html A Review of "Virtualization for Dummies: Sun and AMD Special Edition" by Bernard Golden and Clark Scheffy August, 2008 Reviewed by Michael S. Hines About the Author Wiley Publishing, Inc, 2008, 50 pp ISBN 978-0-470-29264-8 (Book not for resale - available in PDF format) Available for free at www.sun.com... I find the "for Dummies" titles an anomaly, because these books pack a lot of information i ... Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:16:26 GMT Review http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit52/m_52_3.html