Attributes of the performance of central processing units: a relative performance prediction model
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- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 30 (4) , 308-317
Abstract
Using readily available data on CPU characteristics—main memory size, cache memory size, number of channels, and machine cycle time—it is possible to predict relative CPU performance for a wide range of machines. Statistical analyses indicate that these characteristics explain virtually all the variance in relative performance.Keywords
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