Evaluating the efficacy of statistical simulation for design space exploration

ISPASS 2006: IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 70-79

  Joshi, Ajay ^a   Yi, Joshua J ^b   Bell Jr , Robert H ^c   Eeckhout, Lieven ^d   John, Lizy ^a   Lilja, David ^e  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROARCHITECTURES; SPACE EXPLORATION; STATISTICAL SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33750801294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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