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POWER2 Performance Monitor

Overview The POWER2 Performance Monitor, a tool used within IBM, provides detailed hardware measurements necessary to study hardware and software interaction on workloads. The POWER2 processor integrates this fully software accessible monitor. This monitor can selectively measure specific software processes with minimal disruption. The monitor provides performance measures that include the number of executed instructions, elapsed cycles, counts and delays associated with cache and TLB misses, and utilization of the various execution elements. Such measures can help to efficiently locate and eliminate performance bottlenecks.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	July 2004	Downloads	5
Format	White Papers
Topics	Processors, Monitoring Systems

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