Title
Exploring Dynamic Program Behavior with Frames and Phases
Abstract
The kind and amount of hardware resources demanded for the efficient execution of different programs are not the same. In fact, even the same program may have different requirements at different moments during its execution. However, current computers hardware is not designed to adapt itself during the execution of programs. The continuous need for energy efficient computation and the ever-decreasing size of transistors will enable the design and manufacturing of smart processors capable of adapting itself to meet the needs of the executing software. In this work, we investigate how program phase analysis and dynamic code optimization can be combined to achieve these goals. We first propose and evaluate a technique to perform online program phase detection based on the execution of frames built by the replay framework and then we show how the phases information can be used to improve the effectiveness of the replay framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WSCAD-SSC.2012.30
WSCAD-SSC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 13th Symposium on Computing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
program diagnostics,dynamic code optimization,dynamic program behavior,energy efficient computation,hardware resource,program exeuction,program frame,program phase detection,replay framework,smart processor,dynamic optimization,dynamic reconfiguration,program phases
Program optimization,Computer architecture,Energy efficient computation,Computer science,Program behavior,Software,Phase detector,Program analysis,Phase analysis,Dynamic program analysis
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-4468-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Divino Cesar100.34
Guido Araujo200.34
Edson Borin312.71