Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008. IPDPS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Miami, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1693-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-2075
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536407
