Multifacet's general execution-driven multiprocessor simulator (GEMS) toolset

The Wisconsin Multifacet Project has created a simulation toolset to characterize and evaluate the performance of multiprocessor hardware systems commonly used as database and web servers. We leverage an existing full-system functional simulation infrastructure (Simics [14]) as the basis around whic...

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Published in:Computer architecture news 2005-11, Vol.33 (4), p.92-99
Main Authors: Martin, Milo M. K., Sorin, Daniel J., Beckmann, Bradford M., Marty, Michael R., Xu, Min, Alameldeen, Alaa R., Moore, Kevin E., Hill, Mark D., Wood, David A.
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Language:English
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Summary:The Wisconsin Multifacet Project has created a simulation toolset to characterize and evaluate the performance of multiprocessor hardware systems commonly used as database and web servers. We leverage an existing full-system functional simulation infrastructure (Simics [14]) as the basis around which to build a set of timing simulator modules for modeling the timing of the memory system and microprocessors. This simulator infrastructure enables us to run architectural experiments using a suite of scaled-down commercial workloads [3]. To enable other researchers to more easily perform such research, we have released these timing simulator modules as the Multifacet General Execution-driven Multiprocessor Simulator (GEMS) Toolset, release 1.0, under GNU GPL [9].
ISSN:0163-5964
DOI:10.1145/1105734.1105747