Perfctr-xen: A framework for performance counter virtualization

Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 15-25

  Nikolaev, Ruslan ^a   Back, Godmar ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HPC toolkit; PAPI; Perfctr; Profilers; Virtual machine monitors; Xen

Indexed keywords

HPC TOOLKIT; PAPI; PERFCTR; PROFILERS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; XEN;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79953197931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1952682.1952687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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