In:
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Vol. 36, No. 1 ( 2008-06-12), p. 439-440
Abstract:
Computer architects usually evaluate new designs by cycle-accurate processor simulation. This approach provides detailed insight into processor performance, power consumption and complexity. However, only configurations in a subspace can be simulated in practice due to long simulation time and limited resource, leading to suboptimal conclusions which might not be applied in a larger design space. In this paper, we propose an automated performance prediction approach which employs state-of-the-art techniques from experiment design, machine learning and data mining. Our method not only produces highly accurate estimations for unsampled points in the design space, but also provides interpretation tools that help investigators to understand performance bottlenecks. According to our experiments, by sampling only 0.02% of the full design space with about 15 millions points, the median percentage errors, based on 5000 independent test points, range from 0.32% to 3.12% in 12 benchmarks. Even for the worst-case performance, the percentage errors are within 7% for 10 out of 12 benchmarks. In addition, the proposed model can also help architects to find important design parameters and performance bottlenecks.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0163-5999
DOI:
10.1145/1384529.1375510
Language:
English
Publisher:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Date:
2008
detail.hit.zdb_id:
199353-7
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2089001-1
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