Archive of posts tagged: Measurements
Performance Counters I’d Like to See – Part I
Introduction I created the performance counters found in almost all CPU chips today, initially in the DEC Alpha 20164 and DEC NVAX chips, announced in early 1992 and late 1991 respectively, but running internally earlier. I made some mistakes, focusing on what events...
RE-gem5: Building Sustainable Research Infrastructure
RE-gem5 is a directed effort to rejuvenate the underlying infrastructure of gem5. RE-gem5 is not a new simulator or a new project; it is a project to enhance and support the current gem5 infrastructure. The community-developed gem5 infrastructure is one of the most...
A Checklist Manifesto for Empirical Evaluation: A Preemptive Strike Against a Replication Crisis in Computer Science
In 2009, Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, published The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, describing his experience using checklists to reduce the risk of errors. Gawande observed that a number of serious...
Why Machine Learning Needs Benchmarks
It’s a marvelous time in computer systems. For me, working in Deep Learning feels like living through a scientific revolution. Kuhn described this kind of change in his classic book, where a new paradigm takes hold, causing entire fields to change their standard...Subscribe
