README

The link to our repo can be found here.

Precursors

Run the following in the repository home directory

export PROJECT_DIR=$PWD

Slurm

All scripts are ran using Slurm with the following parameters

• cpus-per-task=8
• time=60:00
• mem=32G

Compiling

In cases where the benchmarks need to be recompiled, run the following in the repository's home directory

cd microbenchmark
make all

Building

To build gem5, run the following in the repository's home directory

sbatch ./build.sh

This may take up to 30 minutes.

Benchmarks

To generate benchmark results, run the following from the repository's home directory, taking care to run two lines at a time until completion to satisfy job quotas

# Simple CPU
sbatch SimpleInfBenchmark.sh
sbatch SimpleSlowBenchmark.sh

# DefaultO3
sbatch DefaultO3InfBenchmark.sh
sbatch DefaultO3SlowBenchmark.sh

# O3_W2K
sbatch O3_W2KInfBenchmark.sh
sbatch O3_W2KSlowBenchmark.sh

# O3_W256
sbatch O3_W256InfBenchmark.sh
sbatch O3_W256SlowBenchmark.sh

Plotting

Run every python script under the /plots directory. Alternatively, run the plot.sh script while in the /plots directory

cd plots
./plot.sh