Visualizing Application Behavior on Superscalar Processors

This visualization system can be easily configured to display avariety of processor models and configurations. We demonstrate it for both the MXS and MMIX processor models.Keywords: Computer systems visualization, visualization sys-tems, superscalar processors. 1 INTRODUCTION The processing power of microprocessors has undergone un-precedented growth in the last decade [5]. Desktop computers produced today outperform supercomputers developed ten yearsago. To achieve these performance enhancements, mainstream microprocessors such as the Intel Pentium Pro [11] and the MIPSR10000 [15] employ complex pipelines with out-of-order execution, speculation and rename registers