Workload characterization for the design of future servers

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC-2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 129-136

  Maron, Bill ^a   Chen, Thomas ^a   Vianney, Due ^a   Olszewski, Bret ^a   Kunkel, Steve ^a   Mericas, Alex ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLES PER INSTRUCTION (CPI); PROCESSING CYCLES; WORKLOAD REQUIREMENTS;

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

SERVERS;

EID: 33749048741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2005.1526009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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