Hi, As a part of my course project, my group is trying to study the SMT/CMP hybrid architectures and study their performance. As a part of the project we need to vary the parameters like number of cores and number of threads supported for each core and run simulations. As per my understanding, such configurations can be defined using M5, but I am confused as to how to run the simulations and what benchmarks to use. I am new to the M5 simulator and I trying to figure out the best way to work on my project. The spec cpu benchmarks have lincense issues and currently I donot have access to them. So I wanted to try the SPLASH benchmark suite. Can some one help me understand how I can run these simulations using SPLASH benchmarks (if it is possible). It looks like the current binaries for splash benchmarks on the M5 website work only in ALPHA SE mode and they donot work with SMT cores. If I try to work in ALPHA FS mode, will I be able to simulate SMT/CMP architecture workloads. If some one has already done these kind of simulations, your suggestions would be very useful. I am trying to run the simulations on MacOs Leopard, will I be able to use linux-dist to build my libraries properly.
Thank you, Sahithi
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