Next-generation performance counters: Towards monitoring over thousand concurrent events

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 139-146

  Salapura, Valentina ^a   Ganesan, Karthik ^b   Gara, Alan ^a   Gschwind, Michael ^a   Sexton, James C ^a   Walkup, Robert E ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVENT NOTIFICATION; HIGH-ORDER; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOW ORDER; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; PERFORMANCE TUNING; SYSTEMS-AND-SOFTWARE; THRESHOLDING;

SUPERCOMPUTERS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 52249099896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPASS.2008.4510746     Document Type: Conference Paper

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