| W. Buchholz, \A synthetic job for measuring system performance". IBM Syst. J. 8(4), pp. 309-318, 1969. |
....Another model, based on the parallel and sequential parts of the application and on the overheads of parallelization, was proposed by Sevcik [68] An alternative is to model the application s internal structure. It is common practice to measure systems using parameterized synthetic applications [8]. 23 Such applications typically involve several nested loops that mimic the behavior of iterative applications, and perform di erent amounts of computations, I O operations, and memory accesses. The number of iterations, types of operations, and spread of addresses are all parameters, thus ....
W. Buchholz, \A synthetic job for measuring system performance". IBM Syst. J. 8(4), pp. 309-318, 1969.
....loop to obtain a measurable amount of work. The results may then be expressed in instructions per second or program completions per second. 4 Chapter 1 Introduction An early example of this technique is the Buchholz benchmark, based on a master file transaction file update and written in PL I (Buchholz 1969). This program was parameterized so as to adapt to varying given frequencies of computation and I O. A second example, and one of the most widely used synthetic programs, is the Whetstone benchmark (Curnow and Wichman 1976) apparently named after an Algol interpreter system (Randell and Russell ....
Buchholz, W. A. (1969). "A synthetic job for measuring system performance," IBM Systems Journal 8(4), 309-18.
....real workloads. Synthetic programs attempt to combine the advantages of trace data and benchmarks by adding parameters that can be adjusted to reflect real workloads. A discussion of synthetic workload design methods can be found in [22] A few studies using synthetic workloads are found in [23], 24] and [25] which used synthetic workloads to model a file update process. Much of the previous work concerning synthetic workload generation involves workload characterization. In the literature, workload characterization usually refers to the extraction of parameters describing a ....
W. Buchholz, "A synthetic job for measuring system performance," IBM Systems Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 309--318, 1969.
....during the experimental evaluation of computer systems. The tasks, or jobs, which make up the SW, are selected to represent a particular application domain for a certain class of computers. Early SWs were designed to represent typical business applications running on a mainframe computer, e.g. [5, 40, 29, 18]. SW design was later studied extensively by Ferrari [9, 10, 11] However, his work also concentrated on general purpose uniprocessor computers. At the Real Time Computing Laboratory of The University of Michigan, we are designing and building the Hexagonal Architecture for Real Time Systems ....
W. Buchholz, "A synthetic job for measuring system performance," IBM Systems Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 309--318, 1969.
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