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3 Determinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction 47 48 48 48 Hardware performance counters are registers available on modern CPUs that count low-level events within the processor with minimal overhead. Hardware counters may also exist on other system components, such as memory controllers and network interfaces.

3 IBM Blue Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operating System Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Perf Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Perfmon2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Oprofile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAPI in Detail . .

On a counter overflow an interrupt 48 Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications routine interrupts program flow, which can cause timing (and even cache) behavior changes that would not happen if counters were not being used. Also, libraries such as PAPI add a certain amount of overhead each time a routine is called, which can show up in counter results. 3 Determinism It is often expected that if the same program is run twice, the resulting performance results should be the same between runs.

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