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Retrospective Observation of Ball Lightning
Neil J. Gunther
Ball lightning is a very rarely observed phenomenon that makes it extremely difficult to characterize scientifically. Eye-witness accounts of ball lightning that describe many feat…
P = FS: Parallel is Just Fast Serial
Neil J. Gunther
We prove that parallel processing with homogeneous processors is logically equivalent to fast serial processing. The reverse proposition can also be used to identify obscure opport…
Erlang Redux: An Ansatz Method for Solving the M/M/m Queue
Neil J. Gunther
This exposition presents a novel approach to solving an M/M/m queue for the waiting time and the residence time. The motivation comes from an algebraic solution for the residence t…
Linux-Tomcat Application Performance on Amazon AWS
Neil J. Gunther, Mohit Chawla
The need for Linux system administrators to do performance management has returned with a vengeance. Why? The cloud. Resource consumption in the cloud is all about pay-as-you-go. T…
How to Emulate Web Traffic Using Standard Load Testing Tools
James F. Brady, Neil J. Gunther
Conventional load-testing tools are based on a fifty-year old time-share computer paradigm where a finite number of users submit requests and respond in a synchronized fashion. Con…
A Note on Disk Drag Dynamics
Neil J. Gunther
The electrical power consumed by typical magnetic hard disk drives (HDD) not only increases linearly with the number of spindles but, more significantly, it increases as very fast…