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Cost/utilization: a measure of system performance

By Israel Borovits, Philip Ein-Dor
Communications of the ACM, March 1977, Vol. 20 No. 3, Pages 185-191
10.1145/359436.359452
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A method is presented for evaluating computer system performance in terms of a cost/utilization factor and a measure of imbalance. These coefficients indicate the extent to which the total system cost is effectively utilized. The method includes a technique for the visual representation of system performance.

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