S. J. Eggers, E. D. Lazowska and Y.-B. Lin, "Techniques for the Trace-Driven Simulation of Cache Performance," in Proc. 1989 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 1989, pp. 10421046.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....memories. Unfortunately the technique does not extend well to the simulation of parallel computers even if all the processors are the same as the one used to generate the trace. Although there has been recent work in the efficient parallel simulation of multiprocessor caches using address traces[5][6], one problem is that 2 variations in timings and delays in the system can affect the ordering of events and even which events occur, so that the traces are no longer valid [7] Execution driven simulation is a relatively new simulation technique that can be used to produce performance ....

S. J. Eggers, E. D. Lazowska and Y.-B. Lin, "Techniques for the Trace-Driven Simulation of Cache Performance," in Proc. 1989 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 1989, pp. 10421046.

....protocols and other system design issues. However, this technique requires a parallel trace for multiprocessor systems which is difficult and expensive to obtain. Although different techniques in gathering program traces and in reducing the complexity of tracedriven simulation have been developed [1, 2, 3, 4], the complexity of this technique increases as the system size increases due to the size of address traces and synchronization requirements. Most importantly, an address trace can only capture a tiny fraction of program behavior. Therefore, whether the trace can represent a typical workload is ....

S. J. Eggers, E. D. Lazowska, and Y. Lin, "Techniques for the tracedriven simulation of cache performance," in Proc. of the 1989 Winter Simulation Conference, 1989.

....a synthetic trace generator. 5 Workload Model Ideally, a multiprocessor trace would feeds references into this simulation framework. However, this is difficult to obtain and does not provide the required flexibility. Although different techniques in gathering parallel traces have been developed [15, 16, 17], the complexity of trace driven simulation increases as the system size increases. A reasonable alternative is to generate artificial traces with approximately the same characteristics that real traces might have. Since the system to be evaluated usually does not exist, the synthetic trace must ....

S. J. Eggers, E. D. Lazowska, and Y. Lin, "Techniques for the trace-driven simulation of cache performance," in Proc. 1989 Winter Simulation Conference, 1989.

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