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Publication
MASCOTS 1997
Conference paper
Analytic models of workload behavior and pipeline performance
Abstract
The evaluation of pipeline performance and the analysis of different design alternatives and cost/performance tradeoffs are a fundamental aspect of high-performance computer system design. This performance evaluation process requires accurate models of both the pipeline organization and the characteristics of the workload being executed. In this paper we derive general mathematical models and analyses of workload behavior and pipeline performance that can provide measures as accurate as detailed trace-driven simulations with the computational efficiency of analytic methods.