Assignment #1 for Capacity Planning                                KJC (8/23/01)
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DUE: 09/06 in class

For assignment #1 you are to "surf the web".  You are to find the
following:

1) Four capacity planning or performance evaluation tools or products.

2) Three companies that perform capacity planning services

3) Two capacity planning or performance evaluation related professional
   organizations.

4) One university research groups with ongoing work in capacity
   evaluation or performance evaluation.

All of the above must pertain to computer systems (e.g., capacity planning
of restaurants or manufacturing systems DOES NOT COUNT).  Summarize each
product, company, or research group in two or three sentences and give
the URL of the website.

Here is an example,

  OPNET modeler by Mil3 is a commercial network simulation modeling tool.
  OPNET is a graphical tool that supports a hierarchical "object oriented"
  view of a network.  At the lowest level, network protocols can be
  specified as finite state machines.  The OPNET tool includes a library
  of most existing protocols (including TCP/IP) and vendor products.
  URL: http://www.mil3.com/products/modeler/home.html

Oh yes, don't forget to USE YOUR OWN WORDS (do not just clip the words
out of the web site - this would be plagiarism).

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