Exploiting program microarchitecture independent characteristics and phase behavior for reduced benchmark suite simulation

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2-12

  Eeckhout, Lieven ^a   Sampson, John ^b   Calder, Brad ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM INPUTS; PROGRAM MICROARCHITECTURE; SIMPOINT SAMPLING APPROACH;

BENCHMARKING; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPACE PROBES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33749073811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2005.1525996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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