Hi, > I am also looking at how to incorporate gem5 into SST, which is my plan for scaling up past 2 nodes.
SST already supports gem5: http://code.google.com/p/sst-simulator/wiki/HowToRunSST#gem5 (although I've never tried it) Regards, -- Fernando A. Endo, PhD student and researcher CEA Lab and Université de Grenoble, UJF France 2012/10/29 Hossein Nikoonia <[email protected]> > 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 >
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