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Using SimPoint for accurate and efficient simulation

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Erez Perelman,

Greg Hamerly,

Michael Van Biesbrouck,

Timothy Sherwood,

Brad CalderAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 31, Issue 1

Pages 318 - 319

https://doi.org/10.1145/885651.781076

Published: 10 June 2003 Publication History

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Modern architecture research relies heavily on detailed pipeline simulation. Simulating the full execution of a single industry standard benchmark at this level of detail takes on the order of months to complete. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that to properly perform an architectural evaluation requires multiple benchmarks to be evaluated across many separate runs. To address this issue we recently created a tool called SimPoint that automatically finds a small set of Simulation Points to represent the complete execution of a program for efficient and accurate simulation. In this paper we describe how to use the SimPoint tool, and introduce an improved SimPoint algorithm designed to significantly reduce the simulation time required when the simulation environment relies upon fast-forwarding.

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T. Sherwood, E. Perelman, and B. Calder. Basic block distribution analysis to find periodic behavior and simulation points in applications. In International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, September 2001.

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T. Sherwood, E. Perelman, G. Hamerly, and B. Calder. Automatically characterizing large scale program behavior. In 10th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming, October 2002.

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cover image ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 31, Issue 1

June 2003

325 pages

ISSN:0163-5999

DOI:10.1145/885651

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SIGMETRICS '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
June 2003
338 pages
ISBN:1581136641
DOI:10.1145/781027
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