Challenges in Computer Architecture Evaluation

IONS AND METHODOLOGY Computer architecture’s heavy emphasis on simulation effectively discourages the research community from exploring other useful and possibly more informative modeling techniques. The few published papers using and proposing analytic models have not stimulated significant follow-up efforts. Stories abound of such papers receiving knee-jerk negative rejections from program committees and other researchers. Among the NSF workshop participants, however, even skeptics admit that analytic models have a place and that some aspects of the research community’s hostility are cause for concern. August 2003 33 Nonscientific workloads have become at least as important as scientific workloads in multiprocessor systems.