Thank you so much for your reply, Daniel! It is really helpful.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:21 AM Daniel Gerzhoy
wrote:
> Hey Shehab,
>
> I've been working with gem5 on my group's research cluster for a while
> now.
> 1) Gem5 isn't very memory hungry in my experience, sometimes long
> simulations (I'm talking 3 weeks+) will start bloating to GB of RAM but
> its usually not paging so it doesn't slow things down (depends on the
> program you are running)
> I exclusively use Syscall Emulation mode, so that may not apply in Full
> System.
>
> *It is however single-threaded. So if your entire group is running many
> experiments at the same time make sure you have a ton of cores.*
>
> 2) As for job management, I created my own system for
> configuring/running/parsing etc.that I've built with python.
>
> gem5 as of recently has been shipped with dockerfiles. I use the gcn3
> dockerfile for instance. I'd recommend using them.
> Again I use a custom solution here, but I'm pretty sure container job
> management is a solved problem. I think one of them is "kubernets" (see
> https://kubernetes.io/)
> I don't have experience with anything like that, but I'm sure that would
> be useful.
>
> Also, if you plan on editing gem5 and your sourcecode is going to be
> located on the cluster, I'd recommend using code-server (
> https://github.com/cdr/code-server)
> It broadcasts an instance of vscode to a web page that you can access from
> anywhere. I used to use gvim and bash scripts and it was hell. Code server
> was a life-saver.
>
> If you (or anyone else) already have a solution for editing code on the
> cluster I would be interested in what it is.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Dan Gerzhoy
> PhD Candidate, Computer Engineering
> University of Maryland College Park
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 8:38 AM Shehab Elsayed via gem5-users <
> gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> My group is in the process of upgrading our cluster and since many of us
>> are using gem5 I was wondering if anyone has experience or recommendation
>> they would like to share about the process for a smooth gem5 operation.
>> Mainly I am concerned about 2 issues:
>>
>> 1) Required hard disk and memory on the nodes for a smooth gem5
>> operation.
>> 2) OS and job management systems or any software related recommendations.
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Shehab
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