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Title:	Workload Characterization Of Multithreaded Applications On Multicore Architectures
Authors:	Davide Cerotti, Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono, Pietro Piazzolla
Published in:	(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014 ISBN: 978-0-9564944-8-1 28^th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Brescia, Italy, May 27^th – 30^th, 2014
Citation format:	Davide Cerotti, Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono, Pietro Piazzolla (2014). Workload Characterization Of Multithreaded Applications On Multicore Architectures, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0480
DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0480
Abstract:	Multicore architectures are now available for a wide range of high performance applications, ranging from embedded systems to large scale servers deployed in cloud environments. Multicore architectures are usually subject to two conflicting goals: obtaining a full utilization of the cores while achieving given performance objectives, such as throughput, response time or reduced energy consumption. Moreover, there is a strong interdependence between the software characteristics of the applications, and the underlying CPU architecture. In this scenario, simulation and analytical techniques can provide solid tools to properly design the considered class of systems: however, properly characterize the workload on multithreaded application in multicore environment is not an easy task, and thus is an hot research topic. In this paper we present several models, of increasing complexity, that can characterize multithreaded applications running on multicore architectures.
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