A workload characterization pipeline for models of parallel systems
William J. Alexander, Tom W. Keller, Ellen E. Boughter · 1987
The same application implemented on different systems will necessarily present different workloads to the systems. Characterizations of workloads intended to represent the same application, but input to models of different systems, must also differ in analogous ways. We present a hierarchical method for characterizing a workload at increasing levels of detail such that every characterization at a lower level still accurately represents the workload at higher levels.