Thank you, Andreas *moved to gem5-users :)
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Andreas Hansson <andreas.hans...@arm.com> wrote: > Hi Hussain, > > I’d suggest to ask on the gem5-users list for everyone’s benefit. > > Multi-threading invariably comes at a cost, and if you want to run say > 10 experiments, they are embarrassingly parallel. As one of the main > purposes of gem5 is design-space exploration most users will be running > 10’s or 100’s of experiments. Thus, instead of making gem5 multi-threaded > and “throwing performance away”, it is efficient as a single-threaded > simulator, and I suggest to run your experiments in parallel to make use of > your many cores/servers etc. > > Andreas > > From: Hussain Asad <x7xcloudstr...@gmail.com> > Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2014 04:13 > To: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hans...@arm.com> > Subject: Gem5 on multiple cores > > Hi Andreas, > > I have a quick question, I am running gem5 build on a core i7 system, but > gem5 uses just one core of the available 8(4cores +4threads). > > Is this feature not yet implemented or am I compiling the system not > correctly, As I would assume if it was using all my CPU cores the > simulation would be much faster. > > running gem5 on Ubuntu 14 LTS, core i7, 8GB of RAM at the moment, should > I move my system to University servers would it be faster in a server > system? > > Thanks > Best Regards > Hussain > > -- 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. > > ARM Limited, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, > Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2557590 > ARM Holdings plc, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, > Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2548782 >
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