DocumentCode
451095
Title
Performance Evaluation of the SGI Origin2000: A Memory-Centric Characterization of LANL ASCI Applications
Author
Wassermann, Harvey J. ; Lubeck, Olaf M. ; Luo, Yong ; Bassetti, Federico
Author_Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
fYear
1997
fDate
15-21 Nov. 1997
Firstpage
43
Lastpage
43
Abstract
We compare single-processor performance of the SGI Origin and PowerChallenge and utilize a previously-reported performance model for hierarchical memory systems to explain the results. Both the Origin and PowerChallenge use the same microprocessor (MIPS R10000) but have significant differences in their memory subsystems. Our memory model includes the effect of overlap between CPU and memory operations and allows us to infer the individual contributions of all three improvements in the Origin´s memory architecture and relate the effectiveness of each improvement to application characteristics.
Keywords
Acceleration; Application software; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Delay; Hardware; Memory management; Power system modeling; Random access memory; Software performance;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Supercomputing, ACM/IEEE 1997 Conference
Print_ISBN
0-89791-985-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SC.1997.10049
Filename
1592624
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