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HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic counter updates for predictor hysteresis and stratification
Hardware counters are a fundamental building block of modern high-performance processors. This paper explores two applications of probabilistic counter updates, in which the outpu...
Nicholas Riley, Craig B. Zilles
CF
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Core monitors: monitoring performance in multicore processors
As we reach the limits of single-core computing, we are promised more and more cores in our systems. Modern architectures include many performance counters per core, but few or no...
Paul E. West, Yuval Peress, Gary S. Tyson, Sally A...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting Performance on SMPs. A Case Study: The SGI Power Challenge
We study the issue of performance prediction on the SGIPower Challenge, a typical SMP. On such a platform, the cost of memory accesses depends on their locality and on contention ...
Nancy M. Amato, Jack Perdue, Mark M. Mathis, Andre...
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
PerfMiner: Cluster-Wide Collection, Storage and Presentation of Application Level Hardware Performance Data
Abstract. We present PerfMiner, a system for the transparent collection, storage and presentation of thread-level hardware performance data across an entire cluster. Every sub-proc...
Philip Mucci, Daniel Ahlin, Johan Danielsson, Per ...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Combining hardware and software instrumentation to classify program executions
Several research efforts have studied ways to infer properties of software systems from program spectra gathered from the running systems, usually with software-level instrumentat...
Cemal Yilmaz, Adam A. Porter