The Laboratory for Computer Architecture
Proxy Benchmarks for Reproducible Research2019 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization Day 1, Nov. 3rd, 2019Computer architecture research has largely employed detailed full-system simulation with real-world workloads, however, the very large simulation times taken by this methodology has started to prohibit good design space exploration. Our ongoing research has come up with successful techniques to characterize benchmarks and synthesize or clone benchmarks into miniaturized code sequences with approximately the same performance and power behavior as the original workload. This tutorial will present the proxy generation methodology, proxies for SPEC CPU 2017 benchmarks, and proxies for Cassandra, MongoDB, and MySQL. It will also present SimPoints for SPEC CPU 2017 and their pinballs. The use of miniaturized proxies for reproducible research will be examined. |
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