Sigma: A simulator infrastructure to guide memory analysis

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2002-November, Issue , 2002, Pages

  DeRose, Luiz ^a   Ekanadham, K ^a   Hollingsworth, Jeffrey K ^b   Sbaraglia, Simone ^c  

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

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; CACHE ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA LAYOUTS; MEMORY ANALYSIS; MEMORY REFERENCES; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; REFERENCE DATA;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84877046185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2002.10055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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