On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Jia Zhan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> I am sorry but I don't quite get it. How do I assure the applications are
> using the extra cores?
>
> FYI, here is what I used in the command line to run blackscholes with 4
> cores:
>
> %./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt configs/example/ruby_fs.py
> --script=./PARSEC/4-core/blackscholes/blackscholes_4c_simsmall.rcS
> --cpu-type=timing --caches --l2cache --num-cpus=4 --num-dirs=4
> --num-l2caches=4 --cpu-clock=1GHz --l1d_size=64kB --l1i_size=64kB
> --l1d_assoc=2 --l1i_assoc=2 --l2_size=4MB --l2_assoc=8 --cacheline_size=64
> --ruby --garnet-network=flexible --topology=Mesh --mesh-rows=2
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jia
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Paul Rosenfeld <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Are you certain that the applications are actually using the extra cores
>> (i.e., are you setting flags for parsecmgmt like -n)? If a single thread
>> runs on more simulated cores, I'd imagine that the runtime would be
>> identical while the number of instructions would go up (due to idle threads
>> running on the spare cores).
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Jia Zhan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am running a single benchmark with different number of cores to
>>> observe the performance speedup. However I didn't see any reductions in
>>> *sim_second*s when the number of cores increases from 1 to 16. Also, I
>>> noticed that* sim_insts* (number of instructions simulated) also
>>> increase as the number of cores increase. Isn't true that the number of
>>> instructions should stay the same for a specific benchmark?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jia
>>>
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