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Subject: Stanford Performance Workshop
Date: 5 May 1999 13:39:26 GMT
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	PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE METHODS
		August 16-20, 1999
		
5-day workshop at Stanford University

Best attended course for the last two years!

Instructors:
Dr. Neil Gunther (Lead instructor)
	Performance Dynamics Consulting
  	Author of THE PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE ANALYST
  	http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0079129463/002-6465930-1288239

Adrian Cockcroft (Co-instructor)
	Sun Microsystems - Enterprise Server Division
  	Co-author of SUN PERFORMANCE and TUNING
	http://www.sun.com/books/catalog/Cockcroft/Cockcroft.html

Attendees receive a copy of each author's book along with 500 pages of notes.

Class timetable available at:
http://members.aol.com/CoDynamo/Training.wics.htm

Topics include:
- Techniques for the analysis of performance data
- Techniques for enterprise capacity planning
- Queueing theory made simple
- Web server sizing and planning
- Sizing for OLTP and DSS workloads
- Clusters, SMP and MPP scalability
- Real-world case studies
- Competitive analysis of performance mgmt tools

Seats still available but register now.  Forms online at:
http://wics.stanford.edu/

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