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diff --git a/devel/calibrator/pkg-descr b/devel/calibrator/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..82a9ddf95fd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/calibrator/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +The Calibrator is a small C program that is supposed to analyze a computer's +memory system and extract the following parameters: + + * number of cache levels + * for each cache level: size, linesize, access/miss latency + * main memory access latency, number of TLB levels + * for each TLB level: capacity, pagesize, TLB miss latency + +The Calibrator is a by-product of our work on Main-Memory Databases within +the Monet project. The Calibrator is freely available for download and usage, +but we kindly ask all users to include a reference to the Calibrator's home +page whenever they refer to the Calibrator or publish calibration results. + +Author: Stefan Manegold <Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl> + +WWW: http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/Calibrator/ |