[Simh] [simh] new gem5 paper

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Although it is off the topic of simh, many readers of this list, I
suspect, have interests in multiple CPU emulators.  This new paper may
therefore be of interest to some of you:

@String{j-COMP-ARCH-NEWS = "ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News"}

@Article{Binkert:2011:GS,
  author =       "Nathan Binkert and Bradford Beckmann and Gabriel Black
                 and Steven K. Reinhardt and Ali Saidi and Arkaprava
                 Basu and Joel Hestness and Derek R. Hower and Tushar
                 Krishna and Somayeh Sardashti and Rathijit Sen and
                 Korey Sewell and Muhammad Shoaib and Nilay Vaish and
                 Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood",
  title =        "The {\tt gem5} simulator",
  journal =      j-COMP-ARCH-NEWS,
  volume =       "39",
  number =       "2",
  pages =        "1--7",
  month =        may,
  year =         "2011",
  CODEN =        "CANED2",
  DOI =          "http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2024716.2024718",
  ISSN =         "0163-5964",
  bibdate =      "Thu Sep 1 17:35:28 MDT 2011",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/",
  abstract =     "The gem5 simulation infrastructure is the merger of
                 the best aspects of the M5 [4] and GEMS [9] simulators.
                 M5 provides a highly configurable simulation framework,
                 multiple ISAs, and diverse CPU models. GEMS complements
                 these features with a detailed and flexible memory
                 system, including support for multiple cache coherence
                 protocols and interconnect models. Currently, gem5
                 supports most commercial ISAs (ARM, ALPHA, MIPS, Power,
                 SPARC, and x86), including booting Linux on three of
                 them (ARM, ALPHA, and x86). The project is the result
                 of the combined efforts of many academic and industrial
                 institutions, including AMD, ARM, HP, MIPS, Princeton,
                 MIT, and the Universities of Michigan, Texas, and
                 Wisconsin.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News",
}

The paper appeared today, and the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is
not yet operational: it should be in a few days.  In the meantime, you
can find a PDF of the paper via links from this site:

	http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2024718

Because of font issues, I had trouble viewing that PDF file on two
flavors of Unix, but I was finally able to get a somewhat readable
printout from skim on a Mac, albeit with numerous character
substitutions.

I found another PDF file of the paper at

	http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/can11_gem5.pdf

and it appears to be more easily readable.

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