Using Confidence interval to Summarize the Evaluating Results of DSM Systems

Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems have gained popularacceptance by combining the scalability and low cost of distributed system with theease of use of single address space. Many new hardware DSM and software DSMsystems have been proposed in recent years. In general, benchmarking is widely usedto demonstrate the performance advantages of new systems. However, the commonmethod used to summarize the measured results is the arithmetic mean of ratios,which is incorrect in some cases. Furthermore, many publ…