• DocumentCode
    1156741
  • Title

    SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation

  • Author

    Wenisch, Thomas F. ; Wunderlich, Roland E. ; Ferdman, Michael ; Ailamaki, Anastassia ; Falsafi, Babak ; Hoe, James C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    18
  • Lastpage
    31
  • Abstract
    Timing-accurate full-system multiprocessor simulations can take years because of architecture and application complexity. Statistical sampling makes simulation-based studies feasible by providing ten-thousand-fold reductions in simulation runtime and enabling thousand-way simulation parallelism
  • Keywords
    multiprocessing systems; sampling methods; virtual machines; computer system simulation; full-system multiprocessor simulation; simulation parallelism; statistical sampling; Acceleration; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Hardware; Measurement; Microarchitecture; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Sampling methods; Yarn; CPU; SPEC; SimFlex; computer system simulation; statistical sampling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MM.2006.79
  • Filename
    1677500