Title :
Simulating the DASH architecture in HASE
Author :
Williams, L.M. ; Ibbett, R.N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Edinburgh Univ., UK
Abstract :
HASE (Hierarchical computer Architecture design and Simulation Environment) allows for the rapid development and exploration of computer architectures at multiple levels of abstraction, encompassing both hardware and software. The user interacts with HASE via an X-Windows/Motif graphical interface, and one of the main forms of output is an animation of the design window. The DASH architecture was designed to prove the feasibility of building a scaleable high-performance machine with multiple coherent caches and a single address space. The HASE simulation therefore concentrates on implementing the cache coherency protocols, and the animator has been used to check that the simulation conforms to the architecture. Future work will involve performance checks of the simulator, and thence possible architectural enhancements
Keywords :
cache storage; computer animation; engineering graphics; graphical user interfaces; memory protocols; parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; virtual machines; DASH architecture simulation; HASE; Hierarchical Computer Architecture Design and Simulation Environment; X-Windows/Motif graphical interface; abstraction levels; address space; architectural enhancements; cache coherency protocols; design window animation; multiple coherent caches; performance checks; rapid development; scaleable high-performance machine; user interaction; Animation; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Education; Hardware; Object oriented modeling; System testing; Windows;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of the 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7432-6
DOI :
10.1109/SIMSYM.1996.492161
