Requirements:

• NVIDIA CUDA SDK
• CUDA 4.0
• gcc 4.4 and g++ 4.8

Buildng and Running:

1. Modify CUDAHOME and NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK_LOCATION in v3.x/setup_environment to the location where NVIDIA CUDA SDK and CUDA 4.0 are installed.

2. Change directory to v3.x

3. Source the setup_environment file by changing to running source setup_environment

4. Make the simulator by running make in the v3.x folder

5. Change directory to pthread_benchmark. Then, make in the pthread_benchmark folder.

6. run ./gpgpu-sim [benchmark name list]. The list [benchmark name list] should contain a list of benchmarks that will be run, seperate by space. For example, running ./gpgpu-sim BLK MM will run launch the simulation with two concurrently executing benchmarks.

Changing the configuration:

In the pthread_benchmark directory, there exists the configuration file called gpgpusim.config . This file contains the configurations paramters that are used in the simulator.

The paramter vm_config decides which configuration to run the simulation in. For example, setting vm_config as 0 runs baseline, and setting vm_config as 6 runs DWS.

vm_config	configuration
0	baseline
1	ideal tlb
3	per application tlb
5	per application tlb + page walkers
6	DWS
7	DWS ++

Parsing the outupt:

While the simulator does generate statistics files, one should redirect the stdout to a file. When multiple kernels are run, the kernels may have different finish times. Some kernels may finish multiple runs before the another can finish one run. We dump the generated statistics at kernel boundaries to stdout. By capturing stdout, one can also see study the statistics at different points of the simulation run.

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