MemSpy: Analyzing memory system bottlenecks in programs

Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGMETRICS Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 1992

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 1-12

  Martonosi, Margaret ^a   Gupta, Anoop ^a   Anderson, Thomas ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; CODES (SYMBOLS); MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

CACHE INVALIDATION; CACHE MISS RATES; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; MEMORY BOTTLENECK; MEMORY REFERENCES; PARALLEL PROGRAM; PERFORMANCE TUNING; SPATIAL LOCALITY;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 84978485471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/133057.133079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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