Attributes of the performance of central processing units: a relative performance prediction model

  • Authors:
  • Phillip Ein-Dor;Jacob Feldmesser

  • Affiliations:
  • Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel;ELTA Electronics Industries, Ltd., Ashdod, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

Using readily available data on CPU characteristics—main memory size, cache memory size, number of channels, and machine cycle time—it is possible to predict relative CPU performance for a wide range of machines. Statistical analyses indicate that these characteristics explain virtually all the variance in relative performance.