| Performance and Capacity is the art of improving the speed, efficiency, and storage capacity of computers. It covers a broad spectrum of areas, from making an operating system run faster to fine tuning the instruction pipeline of a CPU chip (Central Processing Unit), so that it can execute more instructions per clock cycle.
A large part of this field concerns itself with the development and proper usage of monitoring and benchmarking tools. These tools are used to peer underneath the hood of both software programs and hardware platforms, to give the diagnostic engineer an image of the underlying process and where performance bottlenecks may occur. The other side of the field is focused on improving the storage capacity of computing devices including devices such as hard disks, removable optical disks, memory drives, and any other medium used for storing computer data. |