Designing Configurable, Modifiable And Reusable Components For Simulation of Multicore Systems

Jun Wang, Jesse Beu, Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Tom Conte. “Designing Configurable, Modifiable And Reusable Components For Simulation of Multicore Systems.” 3rd International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS12) held with SC12. November 2012.

Abstract

A simulation system for modern multicore architectures is composed of various component models. For such a system to be useful for research purposes, modifiability is a key quality attribute. Users, when building a simulation model, need to have the capability to adjust various aspects of a component, or even replace a component with another of the same type. Software design considerations can determine whether or not a simulation system is successful in providing such capabilities. This paper presents a few design tactics that we adopt in creating configurable, modifiable, and reusable components for Manifold,
our parallel simulation framework for multicore systems. The main example component is MCP-cache, a coherence cache model. The ideas behind the tactics are general enough and should be useful to designers of similar systems.

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@inproceedings{wang_pmbs12,
author = {Jun Wang and Jesse Beu and Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Tom Conte},
title = {Designing Configurable, Modifiable And Reusable Components For Simulation of Multicore Systems},
booktitle = {3rd International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS12), held with SC12},
month = November,
year = 2012
}