Simulators

From PEL Wiki

HPCA Paper comparing simulators and simulation techniques

Contents 1 Simics 2 SimOS 3 SimpleScalar 4 M5 5 Time Reduction Techniques 6 Disk 7 Data Visualization

Simics

• Simics is a free (for academic use) system simulator

• GEMS is a set of modules for Simics from the multifacet team at Wisconsin simulates a SPARC system

SimOS

• SimOS is similar to Simics but for MIPS. Some of the SimOS team members went on to found VMware

SimpleScalar

SimpleScalar on the web

M5

M5 is a simulator for the Alpha ISA

Time Reduction Techniques

1. Sampling
   1. SimPoint
   2. SMARTS
2. Reduced inputs
   1. MinneSPEC
   2. Truncation
3. Fast Forwarding

Disk

DiskSim

Data Visualization

I know this doesn't fit here, but I don't know where it does fit.

Thor is a memory profiler built on Rivet from Stanford. I think I should look into the FlashPoint memory profiler. Robert Bosch has a chapter in his dissertation about it if there is no other source.