Abstract

commercial applications, such as databases and Web servers, represent a dominant class of Internet service workloads. Computer architects increasingly optimize current and future server architectures (such as multithreaded processors and chip multiprocessors) for these important workloads. Architects use multithreaded benchmarks to evaluate alternative designs, by measuring current systems and simulating future ones. Execution-driven evaluation of such benchmarks requires fullsystem simulation, because these benchmarks spend a significant portion of their time in the operating system. 1 Performance variability presents a major

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