Hey Ciro, The NSF project will be for the next three years, and we (myself as lead PI and Matt Sinclair at Wisconsin as co-PI) received ~1.8 million. This will cover 1 developer for three years, 3 students per year (early career students who will concentrate on gem5 infrastructure), and ~350K for "community outreach". Much of this community outreach will be holding gem5 workshops and Learning gem5 summer schools.
The PMC is working on finding other funding that will sustain our developer(s) after this initial NSF-funded phase. Let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers, Jason On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 9:41 AM Ciro Santilli <ciro.santi...@arm.com> wrote: > Fantastic announcement, Jason! > > A question: the document mentions that this initiative is funded by NSF > CCRI grant (CNS-1925724). I couldn't easily find how much money / time > that grant gives. Can you clarify this if possible? > > Will this money be used to cover the recent job announcement made > recently at https://www.mail-archive.com/gem5-dev@gem5.org/msg30611.html > ? Is there expected to be any money left besides this job? > > On 9/6/19 5:24 PM, Jason Lowe-Power wrote: > > Hello all! > > > > It's been a while since there's been a gem5 announcement. I apologize if > > you get multiple copies of this email, but I'm trying to cast a wide net > > with this announcement. > > > > I'd like announce a new project: RE-gem5. RE-gem5 is a directed effort to > > rejuvenate the underlying infrastructure of gem5. RE-gem5 is not a new > > simulator or a new project; it is a project to enhance and support the > > current gem5 infrastructure. This project will enhance and rejuvenate the > > aging gem5 community infrastructure through improvements to the > underlying > > gem5 components, community outreach and improved user services, and > > developing new models for emerging devices required for evaluating > > important applications. > > > > As one of the first steps in this project, we are looking for community > > feedback on our near- and medium-term roadmap. The following is a link > to a > > Google Doc that anyone can comment and make suggestions. > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fv01HavfkIIqfcgZoKUpojkUKkWujxspRCcvS5cTfkk/edit?usp=sharing > > > > The purpose of this roadmap is twofold. 1) We want to get feedback to see > > what other features the community would like and whether our current > > priorities are aligned with the community. And 2) We want to broadcast to > > the community that changes are coming. > > > > RE-gem5 is giving the gem5 community access to new resources which will > > accelerate the development of gem5. Expect that the first 6 months to 1 > > year will be focused on improving gem5's underlying infrastructure and > > making it easier to use. Then, after we have repaired the foundation, we > > will start working on exciting new features. > > > > I'm excited to be leading this project. Please feel free to comment on > our > > roadmap or reach out to me personally (ja...@lowepower.com) with any > > feedback positive or negative. I'm looking forward to seeing the research > > produced by our community with gem5 over the next 15 years! > > > > Cheers, > > Jason and the gem5 PMC > > _______________________________________________ > > gem5-dev mailing list > > gem5-dev@gem5.org > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > gem5-dev@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list gem5-dev@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
