Title : 
MN-GEMS: A Timing-Aware Simulator for a Cloud Node with Manycore, DRAM, and Non-volatile Memories
         
        
            Author : 
Hwang, Woomin ; Park, Ki-Woong ; Park, Kyu Ho
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Comput. Eng. Res. Lab., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we describe a part of our on-going research project aimed at the management of many core and Hybrid Main Memory with DRAM and Non-Volatile RAMs (NVRAMs).By the needs of simulation and through investigation of the requirements for the target management system, we found that the simulation platform requires support for many core, a timing-aware simulation of hybrid memory with DRAM and NVRAM, and a Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU).Therefore, we built MN-GEMS, a full-system simulator for the consolidated VMs of a cloud node satisfying all these requirements.
         
        
            Keywords : 
DRAM chips; cloud computing; multiprocessing systems; virtual machines; DRAM; MN-GEMS; VM; cloud node; hybrid main memory; manycore management; nonvolatile memories; performance monitoring unit; target management system; timing-aware simulator; Computational modeling; Memory management; Nonvolatile memory; Phasor measurement units; Program processors; Random access memory; Timing; NVRAM; hybrid main memory; memory contention; scheduling; simulator; virtual machines;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Washington, DC
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0836-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
2159-6182
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLOUD.2011.104