Hi, Jiayuan, Your list of contributions looks awesome!!! I would prefer the order of 3, 4, 1, 2.
Leonard On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Jiayuan Meng <jerryh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear M5 Team, > > I'll soon start to work on integrating our M5-based simulator, MV5, into > M5. I've read some documentation on the current status of M5, and I'd like > to share my plan/ideas with you and hear your suggestions. > Since M5 will soon replace its entire memory system modeling with > Ruby&Gems, it seems the interconnect and directory coherence modules in MV5 > will have little value for future M5. I'm wondering if the following > contributions would be interesting to you. > > 1. An in-order CPU module with multi-threading (switching threads upon > cache accesses) based on TimingSimpleCPU. > 2. SIMD cores: Based on TimingSimpleCPU. It models GPU-like branch > handling using the re-convergence stack. It is implemented as an array of > scalar threads rather than wider vector registers. It requires a parallel > API written in a similar style to OpenMP, with manually instrumentation to > signal the end of a branch in the parallel section of code. > 3. A parallel API for writing parallel benchmarks that run in system > emulation mode. It can be used in a similar way to Pthread. It also provide > OpenMP-like programming interface, and it can work with the SIMD cores. It > also comes with various scheduling policies. > 4. A batch-simulation tool, which creates, manages, organizes, and > analyzes simulation tasks in batches. Written in Python. Good for space > exploration and sensitivity study. I manage tens of thousands of simulations > over up to 100 machines using this tool. It can work with a cluster of > machines with a shared file system. It also supports the PBS queuing > system. > > What do you think about the above contributions? Can you prioritize them? > > Thanks, > > Jiayuan > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > m5-dev@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > -- Give our ability to our work, but our genius to our life!
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