Modeling application performance by convolving machine signatures with application profiles

This paper presents a performance modeling methodology that is faster than traditional cycle-accurate simulation, more sophisticated than performance estimation based on system peak-performance metrics, and is shown to be effective on a class of High Performance Computing benchmarks. The method yields insight into the factors that affect performance on single-processor and parallel computers.

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