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@Article{So:1988:PLV,
  author =       "K. So and V. Zecca",
  title =        "Program locality of vectorized applications running on
                 the {IBM} 3090 with {Vector Facility}",
  journal =      j-IBM-SYS-J,
  volume =       "27",
  number =       "4",
  pages =        "436--452",
  month =        nov,
  year =         "1988",
  CODEN =        "IBMSA7",
  ISSN =         "0018-8670",
  bibdate =      "Tue Mar 19 17:38:46 1996",
  abstract =     "An Instruction-level simulator is used to study the
                 program locality of large scientific applications. The
                 simulator, which models an IBM 3090 processor with
                 Vector Facility and a cache, was developed to help a
                 programmer improve the performance of an application
                 through better understanding and use of the Vector
                 Facility and the memory hierarchy of the IBM 3090
                 system. The main observations on a set of scientific
                 applications are as follows: although the applications
                 have different characteristics of memory accesses and
                 vectorization, their program locality is high enough to
                 take advantage of conventional cache structures; the
                 cache hit ratio of the vector execution can be quite
                 different from (but not significantly lower than) that
                 of the scalar execution of the same application; and
                 the application programs that are written to optimize
                 the use of the memory hierarchy in the system generally
                 result in higher cache hit ratios than the others. The
                 cache performance of these applications with respect to
                 various cache parameters is also presented. In
                 particular, the study finds that the cache structure of
                 the IBM 3090 is well suited for large scientific
                 applications.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  affiliation =  "IBM Res. Div., Yorktown Heights, NY, USA",
  classification = "C5470 (Performance evaluation and testing); C5440
                 (Multiprocessor systems and techniques); C7430
                 (Computer engineering)",
  keywords =     "Cache performance; Conventional cache structures;
                 design, Instruction-level simulator; IBM 3090;
                 measurement; performance; Scientific applications;
                 Vector Facility",
  language =     "English",
  pubcountry =   "USA",
  subject =      "C.4 Computer Systems Organization, PERFORMANCE OF
                 SYSTEMS \\ C.5.3 Computer Systems Organization,
                 COMPUTER SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION, Microcomputers \\ B.3.2
                 Hardware, MEMORY STRUCTURES, Design Styles, Cache
                 memories",
  thesaurus =    "Buffer storage; IBM computers; Parallel machines;
                 Performance evaluation; Virtual machines",
}

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