A configurable framework for investigating workload execution
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Processor systems contain a limited number of hardware counters that provide some visibility for certain types of interactions, but do not support sophisticated analysis due to limited resources. By contrast, system software simulators provide multidimensional runtime data, but slowdown application execution, often resulting in an inaccurate picture of hardware/ software interactions. The ideal solution to this problem is to create a dedicated hardware unit to “watch” the processor for these types of behaviours. In this paper, we present a hardware framework that leverages an FPGA's reconfigurable fabric to investigate of workload execution behaviours on processors using a hardware-Based Analyzer for the Characterization of User Software (ABACUS). ABACUS is currently able to interface with the LEON3 processor using 1367 FFs, 1504 LUTs and 1 Block RAM on a Virtex 2Pro running at 144 MHz.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it