SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation
Thomas F. Wenisch, Roland E. Wunderlich, Michael Ferdman, Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, James C. Hoe · IEEE Micro · 2006
Timing-accurate full-system multiprocessor simulations can take years because of architecture and application complexity. Statistical sampling makes simulation-based studies feasible by providing ten-thousand-fold reductions in simulation runtime and enabling thousand-way simulation parallelism