发明名称 Method and system for predicting performance of software applications on prospective hardware architecture
摘要 A system and method for identifying optimal system architectures for a reference application are provided. The system and method comprise executing a reference application and a plurality of test applications on a current system architecture and sampling performance data for each of the applications. The performance data is used to compute an application signature for each application. A similarity element is derived from the application signatures that illustrates the similarity between each application and every other application. Using a similarity threshold and an algorithm, a subset of test applications that are similar to the reference application are derived.
申请公布号 US8818787(B2) 申请公布日期 2014.08.26
申请号 US201113018243 申请日期 2011.01.31
申请人 Yahoo! Inc. 发明人 Kejariwal Arun;D'Alberto Paolo;Panigrahi Sapan;Cammarota Rosario
分类号 G06F9/45;G06F9/44 主分类号 G06F9/45
代理机构 Mauriel Kapouytian Woods LLP 代理人 Mauriel Kapouytian Woods LLP ;Akopyan Lana
主权项 1. A computer implemented method for determining an optimal hardware architecture for a reference application, the method comprising: executing a plurality of applications on a current hardware architecture, the applications comprising the reference application and a plurality of test applications; collecting, with a computer, performance data corresponding to performance of the applications on the current hardware architecture, wherein collecting performance data comprises sampling performance information at degradation events using a performance indicator, a degradation event type, and a plurality of hardware counters; computing a plurality of application signatures corresponding to applications using the performance data; computing a similarity element using the application signatures, wherein the similarity element illustrates degrees of similarity between the applications based on their application signatures; and deriving, in a computer, using the similarity element, a subset of test applications that are similar to the reference application based on the performance data, to select a plurality of hardware architectures, for testing the reference application, on which improved performance has been reported for the subset of test applications.
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