Hi Benjamin, The list is long…gem5 has (amongst other things):
a variety of CPU models that are orthogonal to the ISA, atomic for speed, in order and O3 for details uarch models BSD license (thus both academia and companies involved and contributing) full-system ready-to-run Android disk images and configurations, not just your average chip-multi-processor, but also heterogeneous application-processor-like systems with state-of-the-art CPU models a very active (and large) user community Ultimately using one or the other really depends on what problem it is you want to address. Andreas From: <Payne>, Benjamin <bpa...@lps.umd.edu<mailto:bpa...@lps.umd.edu>> Reply-To: gem5 users mailing list <gem5-users@gem5.org<mailto:gem5-users@gem5.org>> Date: Monday, 22 October 2012 22:06 To: "gem5-users@gem5.org<mailto:gem5-users@gem5.org>" <gem5-users@gem5.org<mailto:gem5-users@gem5.org>> Subject: [gem5-users] gem5 versus MARSS Hello, What is the difference between gem5 http://gem5.org/Main_Page and MARSS (Micro-ARchitectural and System Simulator for x86-based Systems) http://marss86.org/~marss86/index.php/Home As far as I can tell, -gem5 can support Alpha, ARM, SPARC, and x86 instruction set architectures, whereas MARSS is only for x86. -gem5 can be integrated into Structural Simulation Toolkit, whereas MARSS has not been -both gem5 and MARSS can simulate multiple cores -both gem5 and MARSS can use DRAMSim2 Please correct me if any of these statements are incorrect. Are there any other considerations? Thank you, Ben Payne http://mst.edu/~bhpxc9/ Suite 450, Room S452 5520 Research Park Drive Catonsville, MD 21228-4870 Laboratory for Physical Sciences http://www.lps.umd.edu/ office: 443-654-7890 cell: 608-308-2413 -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
