Going Live (a Computer Architect Perspective)

Abstract: Professor Renau will talk about the still not published Live Simulation environment being developed by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Live Simulation environment is a collaborative environment with statistical sampling for very fast computer architecture simulations. The talk will present the philosophy and a live demo of the setup. The setup can run SPEC benchmarks in a few seconds with accurate sampling.

Unlike other statistical simulators, the user does not specify sampling parameters. The user just sets the acceptable simulation error, a set of benchmarks, and the architecture configuration. The Live environment is able to automatically adjust the sampling parameters guaranteeing that the error is within the requested confidence interval. By adapting the sample parameters per application, benchmark, and core automatically it is possible to accurately run SPEC 2006 in a few seconds.

Speaker: Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz