| Modeling and Analysis The CAP group does full-system performance modeling and analysis, using analytical techniques such as queuing models and bounds analysis as well as simulation. The group has built and used detailed, cycle-accurate models as well as high-level abstract models to understand the performance effects of architectural design decisions. The group has worked with systems and applications in many areas of interest to Sun customers, including enterprise software, databases, and scientific computing / High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Workload Characterization The group has significant experience with application profiling, tracing, and analysis tools. This includes the development of custom tools and methodologies to fit project or workload-specific modeling goals. Tools developed and extended by the group have been adopted by other groups within Sun, and the group contributes improvements to open-source analysis tools. Recent Projects The group has performed modeling and characterization as part of the following recent projects:
- The DARPA UNIC project - the CAP group is designing and modeling the performance of novel Silicon-Photonic interconnects. The group has also contributed to a paper about the project, in the July 2009 Proceedings of the IEEE.
- The DARPA HPCS project - CAP group worked on architecture performance evaluation and HPC benchmark performance characterization
- CAP group work on performance analysis of the Sun Java Appserver led to architectural improvements
- Modeling of the Cloudberry in-memory parallel database project
- Performed early system-level analysis of benefits of Flash memory in server systems
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