Paper
Elizabeth S. Sorenson and J. Kelly Flanagan. Using Locality Surfaces to Characterize the SPECINT
2000 Benchmark Suite. In Lizy Kurian John and Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard, editors, Workload
Characterization of Emerging Computer Applications, pages 101-120. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2001.
Abstract
Researchers have developed many different methods for evaluating locality, however there exists no
standard method of evaluation that incorporates all aspects of temporal and spatial locality. In
this paper we introduce an advanced form of a locality surface that incorporates all aspects of
temporal and spatial locality into one three-dimensional surface. Examining a locality surface
for a particular workload gives significant information about sequential, temporal, and loop
constructs. This gives researchers a new avenue for characterizing workloads and examining
locality quantitatively. We use our new locality surface to characterize the SPECint 2000
benchmark suite.