yea, fair enough... good points. On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yea, but we don't want the GSoC organizers to think that we're > proposing a bunch of junk that we don't want to do. If I had time I > would actually enjoy doing a direct execution model, parallelizing m5, > or making an in-order core model. I would certainly not enjoy > benchmarking and validation. > > Ali > > > > On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:06 AM, Korey Sewell wrote: > > > Also for new users or undergraduate studies, I think grunt work > > wouldn't be that bad if you can port applications that are somewhat > > interactive or provide "cool" output. > > > > Didn't someone get "DOOM" working somehow with SimpleScalar back in > > the day? > > > > Stuff that has some kind of end "prize" can be motivational for > > students just learning about computer architecture and such... > > > > And in the end, if it ends helping to grow the M5 software development > > then that's great... > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't know that we should keep the Benchmarking and Verification > >> section. I removed the old one because who really gets excited about > >> which can only be described as grunt work. > >> > >> Ali > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Korey Sewell wrote: > >> > >>> OK, I threw a couple of those in there as well. Looks like the > >>> Project > >>> List is filling out a bit... Only thing else I could think of > >>> personally is add the PowerPC ISA port for M5 (hasn't someone worked > >>> on that or is someone currently doing that?). > >>> > >>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:18 AM, nathan binkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Write some blurbs about these ideas. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Korey Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> I added "Interface to Power Analysis tool" to the Project Ideas > >>>>> list... > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm wondering if "Benchmarking & Verification on M5" or some > >>>>> derivation of that would be relevant? The idea would be to verify > >>>>> that > >>>>> workloads and benchmarks of interest work properly on M5. This > >>>>> could > >>>>> add to some phase of our regression testing. Not sure this would > >>>>> be > >>>>> great "fun" for something to do, but it could be useful... > >>>>> > >>>>> What about Heterogenous ISA Systems? > >>>>> > >>>>> Transactional Memory? (Geoff has this but is it ready to be put > >>>>> into > >>>>> M5? Maybe someone could help him create a EXTRAS module or > >>>>> something?) > >>>>> > >>>>> Processor Models (in addition to detailed-in-order): Graphics > >>>>> Processor Model; Stream Processor Model; VLIW???? > >>>>> > >>>>> That's all I can think of... Let me know if that's fine to throw > >>>>> in there... > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> I've re-organized things a bit. I've completely changed the > >>>>>> introduction and i'm working on what is now "other". Please > >>>>>> work on > >>>>>> turning the bullet point descriptions into a paragraphs. When you > >>>>>> do > >>>>>> please use the edit button next to the section you're working on > >>>>>> (instead of editing the whole page), so that we don't step on > >>>>>> each > >>>>>> others changes. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Ali > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:43 PM, nathan binkert wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> The intro text needs to be changed significantly. It looks way > >>>>>>> too > >>>>>>> much like the mercurial text. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Korey Sewell > >>>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>> I did some light work on the GSOC page setting it up more > >>>>>>>> similar to > >>>>>>>> the Mercurial style. > >>>>>>>> - I added a light M5 introduction > >>>>>>>> - Added Mentors List > >>>>>>>> - Starting "Getting Things Done" Section... > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> The Project Ideas list still needs to be done more in the > >>>>>>>> Mercurial > >>>>>>>> style and the Getting Things Done section probably should be > >>>>>>>> added as > >>>>>>>> well... > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I hope what I did helps the cause a bit!... > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:15 PM, nathan binkert > >>>>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>>>> For the "ideas" page, you could just list out device models > >>>>>>>>>> that > >>>>>>>>>> would be interesting. I see Flash Memory device, but if you > >>>>>>>>>> guys > >>>>>>>>>> that > >>>>>>>>>> are familiar working with devices in M5 know of things off > >>>>>>>>>> the > >>>>>>>>>> top of > >>>>>>>>>> your head that seems like a list that may be able to be > >>>>>>>>>> populated > >>>>>>>>>> rather quickly. > >>>>>>>>> If you have something in mind, go ahead and add it. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> Also, how closely do we want to mirror Mercurial's style for > >>>>>>>>>> Summer of > >>>>>>>>>> Code 2008? If we are using this as a guide, we would need a > >>>>>>>>>> separate > >>>>>>>>>> introduction section for M5 & GSOC (like Ali said) and also > >>>>>>>>>> each > >>>>>>>>>> individual topic might not 1-3 sentences descrribing them as > >>>>>>>>>> opposed > >>>>>>>>>> to bullet points. > >>>>>>>>> I like their style personally. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>>>> m5-dev mailing list > >>>>>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>>>>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>> ---------- > >>>>>>>> Korey L Sewell > >>>>>>>> Graduate Student - PhD Candidate > >>>>>>>> Computer Science & Engineering > >>>>>>>> University of Michigan > >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>>> m5-dev mailing list > >>>>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>>>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>> m5-dev mailing list > >>>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> m5-dev mailing list > >>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> ---------- > >>>>> Korey L Sewell > >>>>> Graduate Student - PhD Candidate > >>>>> Computer Science & Engineering > >>>>> University of Michigan > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> m5-dev mailing list > >>>>> [email protected] > >>>>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> m5-dev mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> ---------- > >>> Korey L Sewell > >>> Graduate Student - PhD Candidate > >>> Computer Science & Engineering > >>> University of Michigan > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> m5-dev mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> m5-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > ---------- > > Korey L Sewell > > Graduate Student - PhD Candidate > > Computer Science & Engineering > > University of Michigan > > _______________________________________________ > > m5-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >
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