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SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation

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Thomas F. Wenisch,

Roland E. Wunderlich,

Michael Ferdman,

Anastassia Ailamaki,

Babak Falsafi,

James C. HoeAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Micro, Volume 26, Issue 4

Pages 18 - 31

https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2006.79

Published: 01 July 2006 Publication History

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Timing-accurate full-system multiprocessor simulations can take years because of architecture and application complexity. Statistical sampling makes simulation-based studies feasibly by providing ten-thousand-fold reductions in simulation runtime and enabling thousand-way simulation parallelism.

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SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Model development and analysis
      1. Model verification and validation
      2. Modeling methodologies
    2. Simulation types and techniques

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