Re: [Gems-users] Benchmarks

[Nauman Rafique <nrafique@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,
Compiling a benchmark on simics would be slow. It is recommended to compile them
on a real machine and then you can copy them to simulated machine by 
- Mounting a cd on the simulated machine
- Mounting host file system on the simulated machine
or
- Mounting images of real hard disk on the simulated machine.
See simics docementation for more details.

For the file structure and functions, I dont think there is any other
documentation yet other than the ISCA tutorial. But the code is not very hard to
follow once you get a big picture of the file structure from the ISCA tutorial
slides.

Inclusion or exclusion of caches depend on the coherence protocol selected.
e.g., MOESI_CMP_directory has exclusive L2 cache and MSI_MOSI_CMP_directory has
inclusive L2 cache. 

-- 
Nauman
Purdue University

Quoting Dave <zhu_dave@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there any documentation on how to run benchmarks on a simulated machine?
> I've installed Solaris 10 on sarek, but as far as I can see there is no
> compiler on it. 
> 
> I would like to do some modifications to the memory structure. Is there any
> information on the file structure and functions other than the ISCA
> tutorial?
> 
> Also, is it possible to configure caches as inclusive or exclusive?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
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