Memory can be efficiently utilized if the dynamic memory demands of applications can be
determined and analyzed at run-time. The page miss ratio curve (MRC), ie page miss rate …

Chip multiprocessors are the next attractive point in the design space of future high
performance processors. There is a growing need for simulation methodologies to …

With the continuing growth in the amount of genetic data, members of the bioinformatics
community are develo** a variety of data-mining applications to understand the data and …

We propose a framework for measuring the productivity of high performance computing
(HPC) systems, based on common economic definitions of productivity and on utility theory …

In this paper, we observe and characterize the memory behaviour, and specifically memory
footprint, memory bandwidth and cache effectiveness, of several well-known parallel …

In-memory object caches, such as memcached, are critical to the success of popular web
sites, such as Facebook [3], by reducing database load and improving scalability [2]. The …

Throughout successive generations of information technology, the importance of the
performance evaluation of software, computer architectures, and computer networks …

Using off-the-shelf commodity workstations and PCs to build a cluster for parallel computing
has become a common practice. The cost-effectiveness of a cluster computing platform for a …

Although the best processor design for executing a specific workload does depend on the
characteristics of the workload, it can not be determined without factoring-in the effect of the …

We present a methodology that can identify and formulate performance characteristics of a
computational application and uncover program performance trends on very large, future …