Parallelizing computer system simulators

Author

Chiou, Derek ; Sunwoo, Dam ; Angepat, Hari ; Kim, Joonsoo ; Patil, Nikhil A. ; Reinhart, William ; Johnson, Eirc D.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describes NSF-supported work in parallelized computer system simulators being done in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Our work is currently following two paths: (i) the FAST simulation methodology[9, 11, 10] that is capable of simulating complex systems accurately and quickly (currently about 1.2MIPS executing the x86 ISA, modeling an out-of-order superscalar processor and booting Windows XP and Linux) and (ii) the RAMP-White (White)[l, 22] platform that will soon be capable of simulating very large systems of around 1000 cores. We plan to combine the projects to provide fast and accurate simulation of multicore systems.

Keywords

parallel architectures; FAST simulation methodology; multicore systems; out-of-order superscalar processor; parallelized computer system simulators; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Instruction sets; Microarchitecture; Microprocessors; Operating systems; Power engineering computing; Predictive models; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008. IPDPS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

ISSN

1530-2075

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1693-6

Electronic_ISBN

1530-2075

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536407

Filename

4536407