Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1994
Abstract
Fast computer simulation is an essential tool in the design of large parallel computers. We discuss the design and performance of our Fast Accurate Simulation Tool, FAST. We start by summarizing the tradeoffs made in the designs of this and other simulators. The key ideas used in this simulator involve execution driven simulation techniques that modify the object code of the application program being studied. This produces an augmented version of the code that is directly executed and performs much of the work of the simulation. We extend the previous work in execution driven simulation by introducing several new uses for code augmentation. The result of these techniques is a simulator that is one to two orders of magnitude faster than previous simulators of comparable accuracy.
Recommended Citation
Boothe, B. (1994). Fast accurate simulation of large shared memory multiprocessors. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Wailea, HI, (pp. 251-260), doi: 10.1109/HICSS.1994.323166.
Comments
1994 Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
This work is supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR/JSEP) under contract F49620-90-C-0029 and NSF Grant Number 1-442427-21936. Computing resources were provided by NSF Infrastructure Grant number CDA-8722788.