if you build-up a good tool, you may add it to gem5 and post it to the review board so that others can also use it :)
On Oct 29, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Payne, Benjamin wrote: > Thanks for the reply Hossein. > > The applications I am running the simulation for are sufficiently tuned to > the cluster hardware that I think I need cycle-accurate predictions for > changes we make. That is, I don't think we can get away with much abstraction. > > I am also looking at how to incorporate gem5 into SST, which is my plan for > scaling up past 2 nodes. > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Hossein Nikoonia > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 11:57 PM > To: gem5 users mailing list > Subject: Re: [gem5-users] cluster simulation > > gem5 uses interconnection network within a "system" (i.e. > CPU+OS+Caches+DirecrotyControllers+ ...) > I guess what you want is a TCP/IP-network-connected systems. This is also > supported; at least for two systems. For more than that, you have to add > software-simulated swtich/routers between. > > remember! this might not be the best way to simulate a cluster. you should > think about the level of abstraction you need. > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Payne, Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in a cycle-accurate simulation of a cluster of nodes, each > with their own CPU/RAM+OS and assocaited network connections. It looks like > gem5 can do this according to > http://www.m5sim.org/Interconnection_Network > and > https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/gems-users/2012-March/msg00009.shtml > but I don't see any mention of it in the paper > https://research.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/can11_gem5.pdf > > What is the status of networking and gem5? Is a cluster simulation a > realistic objective? > > Kindly, > > > Ben Payne > 5520 Research Park Drive > Catonsville, MD 21228-4870 > Laboratory for Physical Sciences > http://www.lps.umd.edu/ > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
