Category: Simulators
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gem5 standard library overview
The gem5 standard library, introduced in v21.1 and fully released in v21.2, aims to enhance gem5 users’ productivity by providing commonly used components and features. Tutorials are available to help users utilize the library for creating gem5 simulations, including syscall emulation and full-system simulations. The library offers modularity and extensibility. The central component of the…
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gem5 news – Oct 2023
gem5 has recently moved it’s main development infrastructure from googlesource.com to github. Additionally, the gem5 developers abandoned the gerrit code review framework, in favor of the github “pull requests”. Very recently, a slack space has been created for the users of gem5. Last but not least, gem5 devs have recently posted results from benchmarking linkers.…
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Why is gem5 still single threaded?
gem5 simulator is not inherently multithreaded for several reasons: It’s important to note that while the core Gem5 simulator is primarily single-threaded, researchers and developers can leverage distributed computing techniques and parallel execution to run multiple Gem5 instances in parallel, simulating multiple cores or systems concurrently. This approach can achieve some level of parallelism while…