chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- chapter 2 Performance Modeling and Measurement Techniques -- chapter 3 Benchmarks -- chapter 4 Aggregating Performance Metrics Over a Benchmark Suite -- chapter 5 Statistical Techniques for Computer Performance Analysis -- chapter 6 Statistical Sampling for Processor and Cache Simulation -- chapter 7 SimPoint -- chapter 8 Statistical Simulation -- chapter 9 Benchmark Selection -- chapter 10 Introduction to Analytical Models -- chapter 11 Performance Monitoring Hardware and the Pentium 4 Processor -- chapter 12 Performance Monitoring on the POWER5™ Microprocessor -- chapter 13 Performance Monitoring on the Itanium * Processor Family.