Computer and microprocessor architectures are advancing at an astounding pace.
However, increasing demands on performance coupled with a wide variety of specialized …

Performance evaluation is at the foundation of computer architecture research and
development. Contemporary microprocessors are so complex that architects cannot design …

The book discusses rationales for creating and updating benchmarks, the use of
benchmarks in academic research, benchmarking methodologies, the relation of SPEC …

State-of-the-art high performance microprocessors contain tens of millions of transistors and
operate at frequencies close to 2 GHz. These processors perform several tasks in overlap …

Benchmarking has become one of the most important methods for quantitative performance
evaluation of processor and computer system designs. Benchmarking of modern …

Empirical systems research is facing a dilemma. Minor aspects of an experimental setup can
have a significant impact on its associated performance measurements and potentially …

Parallel computing is rapidly evolving to include heterogeneous collections of distributed
and parallel systems. Concurrently, applications are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary …

Benchmarking is a widely used approach to measure computer performance. Current use of
benchmarks only provides running times to describe the performance of a tested system …

As computers and software have become more powerful, it seems almost human nature to
want the biggest and fastest toy you can afford. But how do you know if your toy is tops …

Most performance analysis today uses either microbenchmarks or standard
macrobenchmarks (eg SPEC, LADDIS, the Andrew benchmark). However, the results of …