Workload Modelling in Computer Architecture Simulation A.D. Pimentel L.O. Hertzberger Dept. of Computer Science University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands andy,bob @wins.uva.nl
In the life cycle of a hardware design, it is often needed to start first with a gross evaluation, typically performed using abstract simulation models, then refine the design in a step-wise approach towards more detailed and accurate evaluation. This progressive refinement proce
Multithreaded, throughput-oriented commercial applications, such as databases and Web servers, represent a dominant class of Internet service workloads. Computer architects increasingly optimize current and future server architectures (such as multithreaded processors and chip mu
We propose and evaluate a simplified technique for studying the architectural behavior of database workloads. This “microbenchmark” technique poses simple queries of the database to generate the same dominant I/O patterns exhibited in more complex, fully-scaled workloads. The pot
The Knob & Switch Computer is a computer architecture simulator designed to teach beginning students the basics of computer organization. It differs from existing simulators in two significant ways: (1) it incorporates " cognitive hooks " in the form of knobs and switches that en
System-level computer architecture simulations create large volumes of simulation data to explore alternative architectural solutions. Interpreting and drawing conclusions from this amount of simulation results can be extremely cumbersome. In other domains that also struggle with
Simulation is used as a primary performance evaluation methodology in most computer architecture publications. There is not much literature dealing with the evaluation of simulators by comparing them to each other and to the state-of-the-art processors. The absence of performance