WPC: Whole-Picture Workload Characterization Across Intermediate Representation, ISA, and Microarchitecture

doi:10.1109/LCA.2021.3087828

	WPC: Whole-Picture Workload Characterization Across Intermediate Representation, ISA, and Microarchitecture
	Wang, Lei 1,2; Xiong, Xingwang 1; Zhan, Jianfeng 1,2; Gao, Wanling 1,2; Wen, Xu 1; Kang, Guoxin 1; Tang, Fei 1
	2021-07-01
发表期刊	IEEE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE LETTERS
ISSN	1556-6056
卷号	20 期号:2 页码:86-89
摘要	This letter reveals that performing microarchitecture-dependent, or microarchitecture-independent, or ISA-independent workload characterization alone will lead to misleading or even erroneous conclusions. We present a whole-picture workload characterization (in short, WPC) methodology and the tool. WPC integrates microarchitecture-dependent, microarchitecture-independent, and ISA-independent characterization methodologies. It performs a whole-picture analysis on hierarchical profile data across Intermediate Representation (IR), ISA, and microarchitecture to sum up the inherent workload characteristics and understand the reasons behind the numbers. We contradict an influential observation using the WPC tool: having higher front-end stalls is an intrinsic characteristic of scale-out workloads. Our experiments show collecting microarchitecture metrics at only one level without understanding the reason behind the numbers might lead to erroneous conclusions. We open-source the WPC tool from the project homepage https://www.benchcouncil.org/WPC.
关键词	Microarchitecture Tools Measurement Pipelines Java Entropy Runtime Whole-picture workload characterization intermediate representation ISA microarchitecture
DOI	10.1109/LCA.2021.3087828
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
WOS记录号	WOS:000671495600002
出版者	IEEE COMPUTER SOC
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/17522
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Zhan, Jianfeng
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China 2.Int Open Benchmarking Council, Princeton, NJ USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Lei,Xiong, Xingwang,Zhan, Jianfeng,et al. WPC: Whole-Picture Workload Characterization Across Intermediate Representation, ISA, and Microarchitecture[J]. IEEE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE LETTERS,2021,20(2):86-89.
APA	Wang, Lei.,Xiong, Xingwang.,Zhan, Jianfeng.,Gao, Wanling.,Wen, Xu.,...&Tang, Fei.(2021).WPC: Whole-Picture Workload Characterization Across Intermediate Representation, ISA, and Microarchitecture.IEEE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE LETTERS,20(2),86-89.
MLA	Wang, Lei,et al."WPC: Whole-Picture Workload Characterization Across Intermediate Representation, ISA, and Microarchitecture".IEEE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE LETTERS 20.2(2021):86-89.