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Workload Characterization for Computer System Design

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Editors:
  1. Lizy Kurian John

    1. The University of Texas at Austin, USA

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  2. Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard

    1. IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 542)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Ultrasparc Instruction Level Characterization of Java Virtual Machine Workload

    • Andrea Barisone, Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria
    Pages 1-24

  3. Analyzing Memory Reference Traces of Java Programs

    • Jin-Soo Kim, Yarsun Hsu
    Pages 25-48

  4. Towards a Simplified Database Workload for Computer Architecture Evaluations

    • Kimberly Keeton, David A. Patterson
    Pages 49-71

  5. Characterization of Bus Transactions for SPECweb96 Benchmark

    • Prasant Mohapatra, Hariharan Thantry, Krishna Kant
    Pages 73-86

  6. Performance Impact of Uncached File Accesses in SPECweb99

    • Krishna Kant, Youjip Won
    Pages 87-104

  7. Performance of Natural I/O Applications

    • Stevan Vlaovic, Richard Uhlig
    Pages 105-134

  8. Workloads for Programmable Network Interfaces

    • Patrick Crowley, Marc E. Fiuczynski, Jean-Loup Baer, Brian Bershad
    Pages 135-147

  9. A Characterization of Control Independence in Programs

    • Anasua Bhowmik, Manoj Franklin
    Pages 149-170

  10. Characterization of Graphics Activities in PC Benchmarks by Bottleneck Detection

    • Daniel Etiemble
    Pages 171-190

  11. Workload of a Media-Enhanced Classroom Server

    • Nissim Harel, Vivekanand Vellanki, Ann Chervenak, Gregory Abowd, Umakishore Ramachandran
    Pages 191-209

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 211-213
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The advent of the world-wide web and web-based applications have dramatically changed the nature of computer applications. Computer system design, in the light of these changes, involves understanding these modem workloads, identifying bottlenecks during their execution, and appropriately tailoring microprocessors, memory systems, and the overall system to minimize bottlenecks. This book contains ten chapters dealing with several contemporary programming paradigms including Java, web server and database workloads. The first two chapters concentrate on Java. While Barisone et al.'s characterization in Chapter 1 deals with instruction set usage of Java applications, Kim et al.'s analysis in Chapter 2 focuses on memory referencing behavior of Java workloads. Several applications including the SPECjvm98 suite are studied using interpreter and Just-In-Time (TIT) compilers. Barisone et al.'s work includes an analytical model to compute the utilization of various functional units. Kim et al. present information on locality, live-range of objects, object lifetime distribution, etc. Studying database workloads has been a challenge to research groups, due to the difficulty in accessing standard benchmarks. Configuring hardware and software for database benchmarks such as those from the Transactions Processing Council (TPC) requires extensive effort. In Chapter 3, Keeton and Patterson present a simplified workload (microbenchmark) that approximates the characteristics of complex standardized benchmarks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Texas at Austin, USA

    Lizy Kurian John

  • IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA

    Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard

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