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

fYear

2011

fDate

4-9 July 2011

Firstpage

734

Lastpage

735

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

2159-6182

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0836-7

Electronic_ISBN

2159-6182

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLOUD.2011.104

Filename

6008777