Does M5 provide the message passing communication over the network? Can I have several machines(each has its cpu and memory) work together with data transfers among them?
Xin ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:58:04 -0800 >From: "Steve Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [m5-users] how to use m5 to do Network-on-chip simulation >To: "M5 users mailing list" <[email protected]> > >M5 does not provide any general network models out of the box; our >only interconnect model at this point is a split-transaction bus >(which you can combine with caches and bus bridges to make fairly >complex hierarchies). > >If you are interested in writing your own network models M5 would >provide a good substrate though. We've recently updated our memory >system so that the caches and busses use a generic "port" model for >interconnection, so at the lowest level it would be easy to rip out a >bus and replace it with a network model of your choosing. > >Our current cache coherence protocol relies on bus broadcast, so if >you want to do cache coherence across the network that would be >additional work. > >Steve > >On 11/6/07, Igor Andjelkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am also a student who is interested in this topic. >> Can anyone answer, please. >> >> Igor >> >> >> Tony Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi , >> >> I am a graduate student who is doing research work on Network-on-chip for >> multi-core computer. >> >> I need a simulator that can do simulation for network-on-chip with different >> topology, routing algorithm, router architecture, or different bus >> topology. >> >> I also need to implement some blocks or units to the network-on-chip so that >> I >> can verify that my optimization design on the network-on-chip can improve >> performnce , power consumption and reliability, scalability. >> >> I also expect the simulator can generate the detailed information about >> cycle-accurate, packet-level bus behavior. >> >> I found "m5" simulator here. >> >> I do not know weather it can give me what I need. >> >> Would you please help me with it ? >> >> Or could you please recommmand other simulator for Network-on-chip? >> >> thanks a lot !!! >> >> Tony >> >> Oct. 25 2007 >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> >_______________________________________________ >m5-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
