Title :
SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation
Author :
Wenisch, Thomas F. ; Wunderlich, Roland E. ; Ferdman, Michael ; Ailamaki, Anastassia ; Falsafi, Babak ; Hoe, James C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Abstract :
Timing-accurate full-system multiprocessor simulations can take years because of architecture and application complexity. Statistical sampling makes simulation-based studies feasible by providing ten-thousand-fold reductions in simulation runtime and enabling thousand-way simulation parallelism
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; sampling methods; virtual machines; computer system simulation; full-system multiprocessor simulation; simulation parallelism; statistical sampling; Acceleration; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Hardware; Measurement; Microarchitecture; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Sampling methods; Yarn; CPU; SPEC; SimFlex; computer system simulation; statistical sampling;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
