Towards a cross-platform microbenchmark suite for evaluating hardware performance counter data

TAPIA'05 - 2005 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 36-39

  Araiza, Roberto ^a   Pham, Thientam ^a   Aguilera, Maria Gabriela ^a   Teller, Patricia J ^a  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware performance counters; Microbenchmarks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; HARDWARE ERROR; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; MICRO-BENCHMARK; MICRO-BENCHMARKS; PERFORMANCE COUNTERS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 46249117241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/rtcdc.2005.201641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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