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Performance and power consumption analysis and characterization for computational benchmarks is important for processor designers and benchmark developers. In this paper, we characterize and analyze different High Performance Computing workloads. We analyze benchmarks characteristics and behavior on various processors and propose a performance estimation analytical model to predict performance for different processor microarchitecture parameters. Performance model is verified to predict performance within <5% error margin between estimated and measured data for different processors. We also propose a power estimation analytical model to estimate power consumption with low error deviation.
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Issa, J. Performance and power analysis for high performance computation benchmarks. centr.eur.j.comp.sci. 3, 1–16 (2013). https://doi.org/10.2478/s13537-013-0101-5
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