Simics: A Full System Simulation Platform

By Peter S. Magnusson, M. Christensson, Jesper Eskilson, Daniel Forsgren, Gustav Hållberg, Johan Högberg, F. Larsson, Andreas Moestedt, Bengt Werner. Computer, 2002

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Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines (Awarded General Track Best Paper Award!) (2005, methodology): “On a 750 MHz Ultrasparc III, Simics executes 2-6 million x86 instructions per second (several hundred times slower than native) [18], whereas virtual machines typically incur a slowdown of less than 2x.”
Token Coherence: decoupling performance and correctness (2003, methodology): “We simulate our target systems with the Simics full-system multiprocessor simulator [26], and we extend Simics with a processor and memory hierarchy model to compute execution times [6].”
Graphite: A distributed parallel simulator for multicores (2010, background): “In fact, the majority of simulators available today are not parallel at all [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], potentially forcing a single core to perform all the work of hundreds of cores.”
LogTM-SE: Decoupling Hardware Transactional Memory from Caches (2007, methodology): “Transaction begin and commit were implemented via Simics " magic " instructions, which are special no-ops passed directly to the memory model.”
A novel architecture of the 3D stacked MRAM L2 cache for CMPs (2009, methodology): “We use the Simics toolset [24] for performance simulations.”
Managing Wire Delay in Large Chip-Multiprocessor Caches (2004, methodology): “Specifically, we used Simics [33] extended with the out-of-order processor model, TFSim [34], and a memory system timing model.”
SafetyNet: improving the availability of shared memory multiprocessors with global checkpoint/recovery (2002, methodology): “We simulate a 16-processor target system with the Simics full-system, multiprocessor, functional simulator [29], and we extend Simics with a memory hierarchy simulator to compute execution times.”
A durable and energy efficient main memory using phase change memory technology (2009, methodology): “We simulated a 4-core CMP (with parameters listed in Table 2) in Simics [30] simulation environment.”
SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation (2006, background): “Flex points Our full-system simulation infrastructure, Flexus, builds on top of Virtutech Simics, a commercially available computer architecture simulation tool.(4) Simics emulates a complete multiprocessor computer system, including all peripheral devices, and is capable of booting and executing un”
Optimizing replication, communication, and capacity allocation in CMPs (2005, methodology): “Simics: A full system simulation platform.”
MinneSPEC: A New SPEC Benchmark Workload for Simulation-Based Computer Architecture Research (2002, methodology): “SimpleScalar [1] is one example of an execution-driven simulator [4], [8], [13] commonly used by the computer architecture research community.”
Cooperative Caching for Chip Multiprocessors (2006, unknown): “We use a Simics-based [21] full-system execution-driven simulator.”
Base-delta-immediate compression: Practical data compression for on-chip caches (2012, methodology): “We use an in-house, event-driven 32-bit x86 simulator whose front-end is based on Simics [18].”
PTLsim: A Cycle Accurate Full System x86-64 Microarchitectural Simulator (2007, methodology): “In TFSim, each instruction is executed by both a functional simulator (the Simics [5] SPARC model) and a cycle accurate timing simulator.”