@inproceedings { nou2005simulatingcomplex,
	abstract = {In this paper we show how modeling and simulating
a complex system such as a web-server
can help to evaluate different metrics and proposals
to improve the performance without necessity
of using a real system. Many times
the system is unavailable or requires spending
time and resources to generate results. With
simulation and concretely with a coarse-grain
simulation as we propose can solve with great
success this problem. In this article we have
been able to simulate the metric and behaviour
of a web server with SSL security, the ellapsed
time required by the simulation on a
desktop machine is only 1/10 of real time. We
have also been able to measure, for example,
the performance enhancements with 8 CPUs
without having an available machine of similar
features.},
	keywords = {Performance Prediction, Modelling, Simulation, webserver, RUBiS, dynamic web sites.},
	date = {13-16 September 2005},
	location = {Malaga, Spain},
	year = {2005},
	booktitle = {ParCo 2005: 16th Parallelism Meeting},
	title = {Simulating complex systems with a low-detail model},
	author = {Nou , R. and Guitart , J. and Beltran , V. and Carrera , D. and Montero , L. and Torres , J. and Ayguade , E.}
}