@conference {14793, title = {EMPS: an environment for memory performance studies}, booktitle = {Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2005. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International}, year = {2005}, month = {2005/04//}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, abstract = {This paper describes an overview of environment for memory performance studies (EMPS). EMPS is a framework to allow different data gathering and simulation tools to be composed together to predict the performance of parallel programs on a variety of current and future high end computing (HEC) systems. The framework seeks to combine the automated nature of direct execution simulation with the predictive capabilities of performance modeling.}, keywords = {Application software, cache storage, Computational modeling, Concurrent computing, data gathering, Delay, digital simulation, Economic forecasting, EMP radiation effects, high end computing system, High performance computing, memory architecture, memory performance, Moore{\textquoteright}s Law, PARALLEL PROCESSING, parallel program, Predictive models, simulation tool, Writing}, isbn = {0-7695-2312-9}, doi = {10.1109/IPDPS.2005.196}, author = {Hollingsworth, Jeffrey K and Snavely, A. and Sbaraglia, S. and Ekanadham, K.} }