SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2009 Program
January 25, 2009
Austin, Texas
- 8:30-8:45 - Welcome
-
- 8:45-9:30 – Keynote
Benchmarking and Virtualization:Keys to Performance
for Next Generation Data Centers
Paula Smith [VMware]
- 9:30-10:30 Benchmark Suites
- SPECrate2006: Alternatives Considered, Lessons Learned
John L. Henning [Sun Microsystems]
- SPECjvm2008 Performance Characterization
Kumar Shiv, Kingsum Chow, Yanping Wang, and Dmitry Petrochenko
[Intel]
- 10:30-11:00 - Break
- 11:00–12:30 CPU Benchmarking
- Performance Characterization of Itanium2-Based Montecito
Processor
Darshan Desai, Gerolf F. Hoflehner, Arun Kejariwal,
Daniel M. Lavery, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum,
and Cameron McNairy
[Intel, University of California, Irvine
]
- A Tale of Two Processors: Revisiting the RISC-CISC Debate
Ciji Isen, Lizy John, and Eugene John [University of
Texas at Austin, University of Texas at San Antonio]
- Investigating Cache Parameters of x86 Family Processors
Vlastimil Babka and Petr Tůma [Charles University]
- 12:30–2:00 - Lunch
- 2:00-3:00 Power/Thermal Benchmarking
- The Next Frontier for Power/Performance Benchmarking:
Energy Efficiency of Storage Subsystems
Klaus-Dieter Lange [HP]
- Thermal Design Space Exploration of 3D Die Stacked Multi-core
Processors Using Geospatial-Based Predictive Models
Chang-Burm Cho, Wangyuan Zhang, and Tao Li [University
of Florida]
- 3:00-3:30 - Break
-
- 3:30-4:30 Modeling and Sampling Techniques
- Generation, Validation and Analysis of SPEC CPU2006 Simulation
Points Based on Branch, Memory and TLB Characteristics
Karthik Ganesan, Deepak Panwar, and Lizy K. John [University
of Texas at Austin]
- A Note on the Effects of Service Time Distribution in
the M/G/1 Queue
Alexandre Brandwajn and Thomas Begin [Université Pierre
et Marie Curie]
-
- 4:30-6:00 Panel – “Benchmarking
in the Multi-core Era”
Panelists: Christian Bienia [Princeton University]; Christophe Harle [AMD];
Markus Levy [EEMBC]; Alex Mericas [IBM]
- 6:00-8:00 - Reception
In
Cooperation with: IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture
(TCCA)
