In:
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Vol. 31, No. 4 ( 2004-03), p. 31-34
Abstract:
The new focus on commercial workloads in simulation studies of server systems has caused a drastic increase in the complexity and decrease in the speed of simulation tools. The complexity of a large-scale full-system model makes development of a monolithic simulation tool a prohibitively difficult task. Furthermore, detailed full-system models simulate so slowly that experimental results must be based on simulations of only fractions of a second of execution of the modelled system.This paper presents SIMFLEX, a simulation framework which uses component-based design and rigorous statistical sampling to enable development of complex models and ensure representative measurement results with fast simulation turnaround. The novelty of SIMFLEX lies in its combination of a unique, compile-time approach to component interconnection and a methodology for obtaining accurate results from sampled simulations on a platform capable of evaluating unmodified commercial workloads.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0163-5999
DOI:
10.1145/1054907.1054914
Language:
English
Publisher:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Date:
2004
detail.hit.zdb_id:
199353-7
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2089001-1
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