Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures

Thomas M. Conte, Charles E. Gimarc (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

1995
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-9593-5 (ISBN)

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Chapters in Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures cover topics such as how to collect traces, emulate instruction sets, simulate microprocessors using execution-driven techniques, evaluate memory hierarchies, apply statistical sampling to simulation, and how to augment simulation with performance bound models. The chapters have been written by many of the leading researchers in the area, in a collaboration that ensures that the material is both coherent and cohesive.
Audience: Of tremendous interest to practising computer architect designers seeking timely solutions to tough evaluation problems, and to advanced upper division undergraduate and graduate students of the field. Useful study aids are provided by the problems at the end of Chapters 2 through 8.

1 Introduction.- 2 Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Related Work.- 3 Analyzer Interface.- 4 Implementation.- 5 Cross Shades.- 6 Performance.- 7 Conclusions.- 8 Acknowledgements.- 3 Instrumentation Tools.- 1 Introduction.- 2 When To Instrument Code.- 3 How Late Code Modification Tools are Built.- 4 Current Instrumentation Tools.- 4 Stack-Based Single-Pass Cache Simulation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Single-Pass Cache Simulation.- 3 Extensions to Single-Pass Techniques.- 4 Concluding remarks.- 5 Non-Stack Single-Pass Simulation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Fully-associative Cache Simulation.- 3 Binomial Forest Simulation.- 4 Write-buffer Simulation.- 5 Directions for future work.- 6 Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Implementation Decisions.- 3 Example Simulators.- 4 Code Augmentations.- 5 The Simulator Half.- 6 Performance Characteristics.- 7 Summary.- 7 Sampling for Cache and Processor Simulation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Statistical Sampling.- 3 An Example.- 4 Concluding Remarks.- 8 Performance Bounds for Rapid Computer System Evaluation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Outline of Approach.- 3 Simple Bounds Model.- 4 Data Dependence And Scalar CPUs.- 5 MACS: A Hierarchical Performance Model.- 6 Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.1995
Zusatzinfo	IX, 244 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
ISBN-10	0-7923-9593-X / 079239593X
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-9593-5 / 9780792395935
Zustand	Neuware