Performance Metrics of Compute Intensive Applications of a Single Processor Computer System

From queuing system approach, a compute intensive application of a single processor computer system can be defined as any application of a single processor computer system where the arrival rate of processes into the processor queue is greater than the departure rate of the processes from the processor. on the other hand, a non-compute intensive application can be defined as any application where the arrival rate is less than the departure rate. A single processor computer system can be used for compute intensive and non-compute intensive applications. In a compute intensive application, the processor is busy most of the time because there is always job to be executed. This paper, therefore, aims at using a novel and efficient queuing approach to model some of the performance metrics of compute intensive applications of a single processor computer system.