1D performance analysis and tracing of technical and Java applications on the Itanium2 processor

Author

Hassanein, Wessam ; Astfalk, Greg ; Eigenmann, Rudolf

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

6-8 March 2003

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

100

Abstract

This paper presents a detailed workload characterization of important technical and Java™ applications used in the industry, on the Itanium2 processor. We present a detailed performance study of four major classes of technical applications: 1- Crash finite element analysis (LS-Dyna3D). 2Structural analysis (Nastran). 3- Computational fluid dynamics (Star-CD). 4Other technical applications (GUPS). The performance of technical applications is compared to a commercial Java server benchmark (SPECjbb2000). The data indicate that the average IPC ratio of technical applications to that of the commercial Java application is from 1.23 to 2.36 (1.74 on average). We analyze the time varying behavior of the applications and collect instruction traces at both the kernel and user levels of representative sections of the code.

Keywords

Java; software performance evaluation; Java applications; LS-Dyna3D; Nastran; Star-CD; benchmark; computational fluid dynamics; finite element analysis; structural analysis; technical applications; workload characterization; Application software; Computer crashes; Computer industry; Finite element methods; Fluid dynamics; Hardware; Instruments; Java; Performance analysis; Phasor measurement units;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2003. ISPASS. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7756-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPASS.2003.1190236

Filename

1190236