gem5.md

GEM5

Feature ideas

• Set meaningful checkpoint names. Current mechanism sucks, you have to remember 1, 2, 3, etc.
• Improve telnet / shell behaviour. E.g. arrow keys.

Publications

• https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/563345090413270/resumo.pdf

Tutorials

• https://github.com/tukl-msd/gem5.TnT

alternatives

• https://github.com/mit-carbon/Graphite
• http://snipersim.org/w/The_Sniper_Multi-Core_Simulator MIT licensed, but with a ridiculous "give your email and we send git repo link to you" approach

Conferences

• ASPLOS https://www.asplos2018.org/
• ISCA http://iscaconf.org/isca2018/index.html

Politics

• http://www.lowepower.com/jason/gem5-horrors-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.html

Source

Entry point:

src/sim/main.cc

How it interacts with Python: https://github.com/pybind/pybind11

Trivia

Andreas Hansson says that HP McPat is a random number generator: https://www.mail-archive.com/gem5-users@gem5.org/msg13725.html