[PTLsim-devel] Issues with multiple OOO-cores

Tue Aug 21 10:55:53 EDT 2007

Matt T. Yourst wrote:
> We have an ongoing project to add a full MESI cache coherence model to PTLsim.
>
> It's going very slow, since unfortunately the grad students working on this 
> don't work full time during the summer, and in general are not as prompt as 
> we'd sometimes like w.r.t. PTLsim projects. We had a meeting to go over the 
> basic architecture of the full MESI model way back in May 2007, but AFAIK 
> nothing ever became of this, and I don't have time to do it myself right now.
>
> If you seriously want to develop a full MESI model for PTLsim, I can provide 
> the notes and code templates we started with.
>
> It's possible others have also done some cache coherence support for PTLsim, 
> but I have not heard about it and/or it hasn't been released yet. If someone 
> has already done this (and is reading this list), please contact me - we'd be 
> very pleased if we could integrate it into the official PTLsim version!
>
>   

A couple of people here at the BSC are preparing to do the same thing 
(MESI protocol implementation), for our own simulations.
We haven't done anything yet, but we could split the work that would 
need to be done.

-- 
Saša Tomić
BSC - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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