Accurate Low-Cost Methods for Performance Evaluation of Cache Memory Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Efficient trace-driven simulation methods for cache performance analysis
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Using the SimOS machine simulator to study complex computer systems
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Understanding some simple processor-performance limits
IBM Journal of Research and Development - Special issue: performance analysis and its impact on design
Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach
Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach
Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures
Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures
Reducing State Loss For Effective Trace Sampling of Superscalar Processors
ICCD '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Computer Design, VLSI in Computers and Processors
Accuracy and Speedup of Parallel Trace-Driven Architectural Simulation
IPPS '97 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
Representative Traces for Processor Models with Infinite Cache
HPCA '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Systematic Validation of Pipeline Interlock for Superscalar Microarchitectures
FTCS '95 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
Performance evaluation and validation of microprocessors
SIGMETRICS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
DIVA: a reliable substrate for deep submicron microarchitecture design
Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Testing for Function and Performance: Towards anIntegrated Processor Validation Methodology
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications - Special issue on microprocessor test and verification
Measuring experimental error in microprocessor simulation
SSR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Software reusability: putting software reuse in context
Implementation aspects of a SPARC V9 complete machine simulator
ACSC '02 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 4
Measuring Experimental Error in Microprocessor Simulation
ISCA '01 Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Workload Design: Selecting Representative Program-Input Pairs
Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
A Methodology to Design Programmable Embedded Systems - The Y-Chart Approach
Embedded Processor Design Challenges: Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation - SAMOS
Scalable analysis techniques for microprocessor performance counter metrics
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A methodology to design programmble embedded systems: the Y-chart approach
Embedded processor design challenges
SIGMETRICS '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
HPCA '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Extending Platform-Based Design to Network on Chip Systems
VLSID '03 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on VLSI Design
Efficient simulation of trace samples on parallel machines
Parallel Computing
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Performance modeling and analysis of computer systems and networks
Comprehensive multiprocessor cache miss rate generation using multivariate models
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Philosophical foundations of computer simulation validation
Simulation and Gaming
Improved automatic testcase synthesis for performance model validation
Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Supercomputing
Simulation of Computer Architectures: Simulators, Benchmarks, Methodologies, and Recommendations
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Comprehensive multivariate extrapolation modeling of multiprocessor cache miss rates
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Determining output uncertainty of computer system models
Performance Evaluation
Efficient cycle-accurate simulation of the UltraSPARC III CPU
ACSC '07 Proceedings of the thirtieth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 62
Proceedings of the 44th annual Design Automation Conference
Accurate system-level performance modeling and workload characterization for mobile internet devices
Proceedings of the 9th workshop on MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications, systems and architecture
A performance methodology for commercial servers
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Finding representative workloads for computer system design
Finding representative workloads for computer system design
Energy-performance tradeoffs in processor architecture and circuit design: a marginal cost analysis
Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
An integrated framework for joint design space exploration of microarchitecture and circuits
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
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Gone are the days when one or two expert architects would use hunches, experience, and rules of thumb to determine a processor's features. Marketplace competition has long since forced companies to replace this ad hoc process with a targeted and highly systematic process that focuses new designs on specific workloads. At the core of these processes are models of the processor's performance and its workloads. Developing and verifying these models is the domain now called performance analysis. However, a systematic design process has some disadvantages because it can constrain the diversity and accuracy of the workloads we can measure. These are hot problems in performance analysis. In this article, the authors describe the advances in performance analysis over the last decade, focusing on architectural performance. They predict that the industry will soon need new simulation methods to accommodate future processors. Researchers have presented some of these advanced simulation methodologies at past workshops on Performance Analysis and its Impact on Design (PAID) workshops. This articleýa tutorialýis the one of three articles in this issue about performance analysis. It is accompanied by articles based on presentations from last year's workshop. Although the PAID workshops focus on computer (hardware- software) systems, these techniques are in many ways universal and adaptable to the analysis of other performance-critical systems.