•Using HP Caliper to analyze effective floating-point load latency

•Using HP Caliper with an application program to characterize the Itanium memory hierarchy

•Using HP Caliper to measure performance data related to translation lookaside buffers (TLBs) You can also read these technical reports about the microarchitecture used in HP Integrity servers:

•Dual-Core Update to the Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Reference Manual for Software Development and Optimization, Document Number 308065-001.

•Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Reference Manual for Software Development and Optimization, Document Number 251110-003.

•Introduction to Microarchitectural Optimization for Intel Itanium 2 Processors Reference Manual, Document number 251464-001, Intel Corporation, 2002.

•Itanium 2 Processor Microarchitecture, Cameron McNairy and Don Soltis, IEEE Micro, IEEE Computer Society, March-April 2003, pages 44-55.

•A Methodology for using the Intel Itanium 2 performance counters for bottleneck analysis, Sverre Jarp, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, August 2002.

•Performance Profiling for Fun and Profit, Jim Callister and Susith Fernando of Intel Corporation and Stephane Eranian and David Mosberger of Hewlett-Packard Company, 24 May 2005.

HP Encourages Your Questions

You can get help with using and understanding HP Caliper by sending email to the HP Caliper development team. Please send questions to caliper-help@cup.hp.com.

You can also see the HP Caliper Technical Support Web page.

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