Ebook: Workload Characterization of Emerging Computer Applications

The formal study of program behavior has become an essential ingredient in guiding the design of new computer architectures. Accurate characterization of applications leads to efficient design of high performing architectures. Quantitative and analytical characterization of workloads is important to understand and exploit the interesting features of workloads. This book includes ten chapters on various aspects of workload characterizati on. File caching characteristics of the industry-standard web-serving benchmark SPECweb99 are presented by Keller et al. in Chapter 1, while value locality of SPECJVM98 benchmarks are characterized by Rychlik et al. in Chapter 2. SPECJVM98 benchmarks are visited again in Chapter 3, where Tao et al. study the operating system activity in Java programs. In Chapter 4, KleinOsowski et al. describe how the SPEC2000 CPU benchmark suite may be adapted for computer architecture research and present the small, representative input data sets they created to reduce simulation time without compromising on accuracy. Their research has been recognized by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) and is listed on the official SPEC website, http://www. spec. org/osg/cpu2000/research/umnl. The main contribution of Chapter 5 is the proposal of a new measure called locality surface to characterize locality of reference in programs. Sorenson et al. describe how a three-dimensional surface can be used to represent both of programs. In Chapter 6, Thornock et al.

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The formal study of program behavior has become an essential ingredient in guiding the design of new computer architectures. Accurate characterization of applications leads to efficient design of high performing architectures. Quantitative and analytical characterization of workloads is important in understanding and exploiting their interesting features. This book includes ten chapters on various aspects of characterization.
The contributors to this volume are internationally recognized experts whose experience spans both industrial applications and the academic community.
Workload Characterization of Emerging Computer Applications is an essential reference tool that can also be used as a text in graduate-level courses on system design.

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The formal study of program behavior has become an essential ingredient in guiding the design of new computer architectures. Accurate characterization of applications leads to efficient design of high performing architectures. Quantitative and analytical characterization of workloads is important in understanding and exploiting their interesting features. This book includes ten chapters on various aspects of characterization.
The contributors to this volume are internationally recognized experts whose experience spans both industrial applications and the academic community.
Workload Characterization of Emerging Computer Applications is an essential reference tool that can also be used as a text in graduate-level courses on system design.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Towards an Optimal File Allocation Strategy for SPECweb99....Pages 1-26
Characterization of Value Locality in Java Programs....Pages 27-51
Characterizing Operating System Activity in SPECjvm98 Benchmarks....Pages 53-82
Adapting the SPEC 2000 Benchmark Suite for Simulation-Based Computer Architecture Research....Pages 83-100
Using Locality Surfaces to Characterize the SPECint 2000 Benchmark Suite....Pages 101-120
Using the BACH Trace Collection Mechanism to Characterize the SPEC 2000 Integer Benchmarks....Pages 121-143
Choosing Representative Slices of Program Execution for Microarchitecture Simulations: A Preliminary Application to the Data Stream....Pages 145-163
Characterization of Memory Energy Behavior....Pages 165-180
On the Impact of Workload Burstiness on Disk Performance....Pages 181-201
Understanding the Impact of X86/NT Computing on Microarchitecture....Pages 203-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-231

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The formal study of program behavior has become an essential ingredient in guiding the design of new computer architectures. Accurate characterization of applications leads to efficient design of high performing architectures. Quantitative and analytical characterization of workloads is important in understanding and exploiting their interesting features. This book includes ten chapters on various aspects of characterization.
The contributors to this volume are internationally recognized experts whose experience spans both industrial applications and the academic community.
Workload Characterization of Emerging Computer Applications is an essential reference tool that can also be used as a text in graduate-level courses on system design.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Towards an Optimal File Allocation Strategy for SPECweb99....Pages 1-26
Characterization of Value Locality in Java Programs....Pages 27-51
Characterizing Operating System Activity in SPECjvm98 Benchmarks....Pages 53-82
Adapting the SPEC 2000 Benchmark Suite for Simulation-Based Computer Architecture Research....Pages 83-100
Using Locality Surfaces to Characterize the SPECint 2000 Benchmark Suite....Pages 101-120
Using the BACH Trace Collection Mechanism to Characterize the SPEC 2000 Integer Benchmarks....Pages 121-143
Choosing Representative Slices of Program Execution for Microarchitecture Simulations: A Preliminary Application to the Data Stream....Pages 145-163
Characterization of Memory Energy Behavior....Pages 165-180
On the Impact of Workload Burstiness on Disk Performance....Pages 181-201
Understanding the Impact of X86/NT Computing on Microarchitecture....Pages 203-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-231
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