Improving the infrastructure, benchmarking, and methodology of simulation--the dominant computer performance evaluation method--will result in higher efficiency and let architects gain more insight into processor behavior.
Index Terms:
Simulation, Computer performance evaluation, Processor performance
Citation:
Joshua J. Yi, Lieven Eeckhout, David J. Lilja, Brad Calder, Lizy K. John, James E. Smith, "The Future of Simulation: A Field of Dreams," Computer, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 22-29, Nov. 2006, doi:10.1109/MC.2006.404