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Full system simulation: Simulating a $2M commercial server on a $2K PC?

Tuesday December 2, 2003
Hamerschlag Hall D-210
4:00 pm



Jangwoo Kim
Carnegie Mellon University

These days, more than enough people in the computer architecture community seem to believe that SPEC2000 CPU benchmarks are doomed. Your unrealistic 2X speed up from GCC simulation is not very convincing. Industry people simply do not care. Instead, they will be crazy if your computer system shows 10 percent improvement under database and web server simulation. It is time that we computer architects need to present the performance of new designs through simulations of commercial workloads, which will require full system simulation including operating system and I/O. It will be even better if we can simulate a $2M server system on our $2K Pentium4 desktop. It sounds too good. What are major issues behind full system simulation?

In this talk, I will discuss several issues behind full system simulation such as benchmark tuning, non-deterministic measurement and simulation validation. I will also give you brief summary of related works and our current approach at Carnegie Mellon.


Jangwoo Kim is a Ph.D candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S degree in Computer Science, both from Cornell University. His current research interests are in fault tolerant microprocessor, fault tolerant distributed computer system, full system simulation and interconnection network. His advisor is Babak Falsafi.

 

Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCarnegie Mellon UniversitySchool of Computer Science