15-418 Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming Final Project
Cache simulator for a NUMA multiprocessor machine using distributed directory based cache coherence
The proposal can be found here
The checkpoint report can be found here
The presentation slides can be found here
The final report can be found here
Quick start:
./cachesim -p 8 -n 2 -m MESI -Ai -t traces/tts_nosleep8.trace
which runs the sim with an Intel L1 cache configuration on a small sample trace. The full traces for the programs we used to generate our data are too large to be stored on Github.
For more information, run ./cachesim -h
Download the pin program here and put unzip it to ~/pin.
Run the following:
cd ~/pin/source/tools/ManualExamples
make
../../../pin -t obj-intel64/pinatrace.{so, dylib} -o <path/to/output/trace.trace> -- path/to/your/executable
(pinatrace.so on Linux, pintrace.dylib on macOS)
Note: the traces must be generated on a Linux machine (e.g. CMU's andrew machines), since they rely on the /proc filesystem.
Ensure pin and cachesim are in the home directory.
Run ./util/run-traces.sh -t [-p]
The -p argument is optional if you want it to prompt you to let you just run certain traces.
This will run the pintool on all the programs in the programs/ directory and output the trace files into the traces/ directory. The num_numa variable in run-traces.sh can be modified if the system does not have 2 (the number on andrew) NUMA nodes.
Run ./util/run-traces.sh -s [-p] after generating the traces, or ./util/run-traces.sh -s -t [-p] otherwise.
Run ./util/plot.py to generate all line charts and output them into plots/. See plot.py for information about how to generate specific plots, or bar charts.