Python代写-COMP9334
时间:2021-03-15
COMP9334 Capacity Planning of Computer Systems and
Networks
Assignment (Version 1.0), Term 1, 2021
Due 5:00pm, Fri 19 March 2021
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• Version 1.0 issued on 1 March 2021
Instructions
(1) There are 3 questions in this assignment. Answer all questions.
(2) The total mark for this assignment is 20 marks.
(3) In answering the questions, it is important for you to show your intermediate steps and
state what arguments you have made to obtain the results. You need to note that both
the intermediate steps and the arguments carry marks. Please note that we are not just
interested in whether you can get the final numerical answer right, we are more inter-
ested to find out whether you understand the subject matter. We do that by looking at
your intermediate steps and the arguments that you have made to obtain the answer.
Thus, if you can show us the perfect intermediate steps and the in-between arguments
but get the numerical values wrong for some reason, we will still award you marks for
having understood the subject matter.
If you use a computer program to perform any part of your work, you must submit the
program or you lose marks for the steps.
(4) The submission deadline is 5:00pm Friday 19 March 2021. Late submission will cap the
maximum mark that you receive. Submissions after 5:00pm on Sunday 21 March will
no longer be accepted.
(5) Your submission should consist of:
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(a) A report describing the solution to the problems. This report can be typewritten or
a scan of handwritten pages. This report must be in pdf format and must be named
assignment.pdf. The submission system will only accept the name assignment.pdf.
(b) One or more computer programs if you use them to solve the problems numerically.
You should use zip to archive all the computer programs into one file with the name
supp.zip. The submission system will only accept this name. The report must refer
to the programs so that we know which program is used for which part.
(6) Submission can be made via the course website.
(7) You can submit as many times as you wish before the deadline. A later submission will
over-write the earlier one.
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Question 1 (3 marks)
An interactive computer system consists of a dual-core CPU and a disk. We will use core-1
and core-2 to refer to the two cores of the CPU. The system was monitored for 60 minutes
and the following measurements were taken:
Number of completed jobs 1347
Number of accesses to core-1 2087
Number of accesses to core-2 2348
Number of disk accesses 2412
Busy time of core-1 2828 seconds
Busy time of core-2 1728 seconds
Disk busy time 2665 seconds
Answer the following questions.
(a) Determine the service demands of core-1, core-2 and the disk.
(b) Use bottleneck analysis to determine the asymptotic bound on the system throughput
when there are 30 interactive users and the think time per job is 15 seconds.
Note: If you use a computer program to derive your numerical answers, you must include
your computer program in your submission. Do not forget to show us your steps to obtain
your answer.
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Question 2 (7 marks)
A call centre has 3 staff to deal with customer enquires. The centre has an automatic dis-
patcher to direct the calls to the staff. The dispatcher has a queue that can hold up to 2
calls but there are no queueing facilities at the staff’s terminals. The queueing network at
the support centre is depicted in Figure 1.
Staff 2
Staff 1
Staff 3
Arriving
queries Completedqueries
Dispatcher
Figure 1: Figure for Question 2.
The centre receives on average 12.7 queries per hour. The arrivals can be modelled by
using the Poisson distribution.
Each staff can complete on average 4.1 queries per hour. The amount of time required by
each query is exponentially distributed.
When a query arrives at the dispatcher, it will accept the query if the dispatcher queue
is not full, otherwise the query will be rejected. If a query is accepted and the queue is not
empty, the query will be placed at the end of the queue. If a query is accepted and the queue
is empty, then the query will be placed in the queue if all staff are busy, otherwise it will be
sent to an idling staff. A query will leave the system after its processing is completed. When-
ever a staff becomes idle, he/she will take the query from the front of the queue if there is one.
Answer the following questions:
(a) Formulate a continuous-time Markov chain for a system described above with 3 staff
and 2 waiting slots. Your formulation should include the definition of the states and
the transition rates between states.
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(b) Write down the balance equations for the continuous-time Markov chain that you have
formulated.
(c) Derive expressions for the steady state probabilities of the continuous-time Markov chain
that you have formulated.
(d) Determine the probability that an arriving query will be rejected.
(e) Determine the mean waiting time of an accepted query in the queue.
Note: If you use a computer program to derive your numerical answers, you must include
your computer program in your submission. Do not forget to show us your steps to obtain
your answer.
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Question 3 (10 marks)
This question is based on the server farm in Figure 2. The server farm consists of a dispatcher
and two computer systems, which are labelled as Systems 1 and 2. Modern day server farms
typically consist of systems of heterogeneous hardware specifications. This is due to incremen-
tal expansion where the computer systems are purchased at different times. In this question,
we will assume that System 1 has a lower processing rate than System 2.
System 1
System 2
Arriving
requests
Completed
requests
Dispatcher
Completed
requests
Figure 2: Figure for Question 3.
As depicted in Figure 2, the dispatcher does not have any queues. The maximum number
of jobs in Systems 1 and 2 are, respectively, n1 and n2. Since each system has a single server,
the number of waiting slots in the two systems are n1 − 1 and n2 − 1. We will specify what
n1 and n2 are later on.
The purpose of the dispatcher is to route an incoming request to either of the two systems
or to reject the request. The dispatcher uses a policy to decide how to route an incoming
request. Let us assume that at the time that a request arrives, the number of jobs in Systems
1 and 2 are, respectively, j1 and j2. The dispatcher policy, in algorithmic format, is:
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Algorithm 1: The dispatcher routing policy
Data: j1,j2,n1,n2
1 if j1 < j2 and j1 < n1 then
2 Route the incoming request to System 1;
3 else
4 if j2 < n2 then
5 Route the incoming request to System 2;
6 else
7 Reject the incoming request;
8 end
9 end
The policy has been designed to make use of the faster system (i.e. System 2) before
using the slower one in order to reduce the mean response time of the server farm. The policy
achieves that by choosing System 1 if there are fewer jobs in System 1 than System 2 (i.e.
the comparison j1 < j2 in Line 1) and the queue in System 1 is not full (i.e. j1 < n1 in Line
1). If an incoming request will not be sent to System 1, then it be sent to System 2 provided
that the queue in System 2 is not full (i.e. j2 < n2 in Line 4). An incoming request will be
rejected if it cannot be sent to neither system.
For this question, you can assume the following:
• The arrivals to the dispatcher are Poisson distributed with a mean arrival rate of λ
requests/s where λ = 1.
• The service time distribution in both servers is exponentially distributed.
• The processing rate of Server 1 is µ1 requests/s where µ1 = 0.5.
• The processing rate of Server 2 is µ2 requests/s where µ2 = 0.7.
• The value of n2 is 5.
• The dispatcher takes a negligible time to process a request and makes a routing deci-
sion. The transmission of a request from the dispatcher to the chosen server also takes
negligible time. Overall, these assumptions imply that the response time of the server
farm is dominated by the response times of the two systems.
• Requests will leave the server farm, once they have been completed.
Answer the following questions:
(a) Assuming that n1 = 1, answer the following questions:
(i) Formulate a continuous-time Markov chain for the server farm. Your formulation
should include the definition of the states and the transition rates between states.
(ii) Determine the probability that an arriving request will be rejected.
(iii) Determine the mean response time of System 1.
(iv) Determine the mean response time of the server farm.
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(b) Determine the response time of the server farm for n1 = 2, 3, 4, 5.
(c) Based on your answer to Parts (a) and (b), determine the value of n1 that gives the
minimum response time for the server farm.
Note: If you use a computer program to derive your numerical answers, you must include
your computer program in your submission. Do not forget to show us your steps to obtain
your answer.
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