Micro-architecture evaluation using performance vectors

SIGMETRICS 1996 - Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 148-159

  Krishnaswamy, Umesh ^a   Scherson, Isaac D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; VECTORS;

'CURRENT; ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; BENCHMARKING METHODOLOGY; COMPUTER PERFORMANCE; KEY PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; MEASURING PERFORMANCE; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; PERFORMANCE VECTORS; RUNNING TIME;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84947217132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/233013.233037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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