TY - GEN
T1 - A simulation tool for evaluating shared memory systems
AU - Tao, Jie
AU - Schulz, M.
AU - Karl, W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Presents an execution-driven simulator called SIMT which models the parallel execution of applications on multiprocessor systems with global memory abstractions. Based on Augmint, a simulation toolkit for Intel architectures, SIMT focuses on the memory hierarchy and contains facilities for designing and evaluating the memory system, especially cache coherence schemes and data allocation policies. In addition, it models a hardware monitor capable of collecting comprehensive performance data in the form of memory access histograms. SIMT allows to study the impact of various hardware and software techniques on performance. It is an easy-to-use and comprehensive tool for system designers and architecture developers to improve the existing infrastructure and enables the exploration of novel approaches in relation to applications and the memory system.
AB - Presents an execution-driven simulator called SIMT which models the parallel execution of applications on multiprocessor systems with global memory abstractions. Based on Augmint, a simulation toolkit for Intel architectures, SIMT focuses on the memory hierarchy and contains facilities for designing and evaluating the memory system, especially cache coherence schemes and data allocation policies. In addition, it models a hardware monitor capable of collecting comprehensive performance data in the form of memory access histograms. SIMT allows to study the impact of various hardware and software techniques on performance. It is an easy-to-use and comprehensive tool for system designers and architecture developers to improve the existing infrastructure and enables the exploration of novel approaches in relation to applications and the memory system.
KW - Application software
KW - Coherence
KW - Computational modeling
KW - Computer simulation
KW - Concurrent computing
KW - Delay
KW - Discrete event simulation
KW - Hardware
KW - Histograms
KW - Monitoring
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941333847&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SIMSYM.2003.1192831
DO - 10.1109/SIMSYM.2003.1192831
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84941333847
T3 - Proceedings - Simulation Symposium
SP - 335
EP - 342
BT - Proceedings - 36th Annual Simulation Symposium, ANSS 2003
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 36th Annual Simulation Symposium, ANSS 2003
Y2 - 30 March 2003 through 2 April 2003
ER -