Paper Info
Title
SimFlex: a fast, accurate, flexible full-system simulation framework for performance evaluation of server architecture
Abstract
The new focus on commercial workloads in simulation studies of server systems has caused a drastic increase in the complexity and decrease in the speed of simulation tools. The complexity of a large-scale full-system model makes development of a monolithic simulation tool a prohibitively difficult task. Furthermore, detailed full-system models simulate so slowly that experimental results must be based on simulations of only fractions of a second of execution of the modelled system.This paper presents SIMFLEX, a simulation framework which uses component-based design and rigorous statistical sampling to enable development of complex models and ensure representative measurement results with fast simulation turnaround. The novelty of SIMFLEX lies in its combination of a unique, compile-time approach to component interconnection and a methodology for obtaining accurate results from sampled simulations on a platform capable of evaluating unmodified commercial workloads.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1054907.1054914
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Keywords
DocType
Volume
unmodified commercial workloads,simulation study,fast simulation turnaround,flexible full-system simulation framework,detailed full-system model,simulation tool,simulation framework,server architecture,monolithic simulation tool,performance evaluation,accurate result,commercial workloads,large-scale full-system model,component based design,system modeling
Journal
31
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
4
79
9.19
References 
Authors
9
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolaos Hardavellas122620.82
Stephen Somogyi216012.72
Thomas F. Wenisch32112105.25
Roland E. Wunderlich457736.31
Shelley Chen5799.19
Jangwoo Kim644735.38
Babak Falsafi74147242.18
James C. Hoe82048141.34
Andreas G. Nowatzyk910210.94