Investigating the TLB behavior of high-end scientific applications on commodity microprocessors

ISPASS 2008 - IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 95-104

  McCurdy, Collin ^a   Cox, Alan L ^b   Vetter, Jeffrey ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Rice University

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS.; BENCHMARK SUITES; CACHE BEHAVIOR; FLOATING POINT; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; OPTERON; PAGE SIZE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SYSTEMS-AND-SOFTWARE; TRACE-BASED SIMULATIONS;

BUFFER STORAGE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SULFATE MINERALS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 52249092401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPASS.2008.4510742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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