A latency simulator for many-core systems

  • Authors:
  • Sunil Kumar;Tommaso Cucinotta;Giuseppe Lipari

  • Affiliations:
  • The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India;Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy;Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 44th Annual Simulation Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we present MCoreSim, an open-source simulation framework for massively parallel and many-core computing systems based on OMNeT++. The simulator supports tile-based architectures with distributed memory and mesh-based interconnects. Its primary purpose is to allow for investigations on the impact of the heterogeneous in-chip communication latencies, as arising due to the network-on-a-chip structure of future and emerging many-core processors, on the performance of the hosted applications. We plan to use MCoreSim to study the variety of possible choices in realizing a suitable software stack for these systems, especially in terms of the choices at the kernel design level.