ZSim

Abstract

Architectural simulation is time-consuming, and the trend towards hundreds of cores is making sequential simulation even slower. Existing parallel simulation techniques either scale poorly due to excessive synchronization, or sacrifice accuracy by allowing event reordering and using simplistic contention models. As a result, most researchers use sequential simulators and model small-scale systems with 16-32 cores. With 100-core chips already available, developing simulators that scale to thousands of cores is crucial.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 23, 2013
Source ID
10.1145/2508148.2485963

Entities

People

  • Christos Kozyrakis
  • Daniel Sanchez

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Stanford University

Tags

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.