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HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Processor Hardware Counter Statistics as a First-Class System Resource
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on program execution characteristics through hardware counters. However, traditionally, operating system (...
Xiao Zhang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Girts Folkmanis, Ka...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 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...
SC
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Using Hardware Counters to Automatically Improve Memory Performance
In this paper, we introduce a profile-driven online page migration scheme and investigate its impact on the performance of multithreaded applications. We use lightweight, inexpens...
Mustafa M. Tikir, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Automated Analysis of Memory Access Behavior
Abstract— We developed an automated environment to measure the memory access behavior of applications on high performance clusters. Code optimization for processor caches is cruc...
Michael Gerndt, Tianchao Li