ToolBlocks: An Infrastructure for the Construction of Memory Hierarchy Analysis Tools (Research Note)

  • Authors:
  • Timothy Sherwood;Brad Calder

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par '00 Proceedings from the 6th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In an era dominated by the rapid development of faster and cheaper processors it is difficult both for the application developer and system architect to make intelligent decisions about application interaction with system memory hierarchy. We present ToolBlocks, an object oriented system for the rapid development of memory hierarchy models and analysis. With this system, a user may build cache and prefetching models and insert complex analysis and visualization tools to monitor their performance.