Title :
Performance characterization of the Alpha 21164 microprocessor using TP and SPEC workloads
Author :
Cvetanovic, Zarka ; Bhandarkar, Dileep
Author_Institution :
Digital Equipment Corp., USA
Abstract :
This paper compares the performance characteristics of the Alpha 21164 to the previous-generation 21064 microprocessor. Measurements on the 21164-based AlphaServer 8200 system are compared to the 21064-based DEC 7000 server using several commercial and technical workloads. The data analyzed includes cycles per instruction, multiple-issued instructions, branch predictions, stall components, cache misses, and instruction frequencies. The AlphaServer 8200 provides 2 to 3 times the performance of the DEC 7000 server based on the faster clock, larger on-chip cache, expanded multiple-issuing, and lower cache/memory latencies and higher bandwidth
Keywords :
microprocessor chips; performance evaluation; Alpha 21164 microprocessor; AlphaServer 8200 system; DEC 7000 server; SPEC workloads; TP workloads; performance characteristics; performance characterization; Application software; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; Clocks; Data analysis; Delay; Hardware; Microprocessors; Pipelines; Transaction databases;
Conference_Titel :
High-Performance Computer Architecture, 1996. Proceedings., Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7237-4
DOI :
10.1109/HPCA.1996.501192
