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- From: matloff@mole.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu
- Subject: (re-posting) ANNOUNCEMENT: Multiprocessor Simulator
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- Date: 16 Sep 92 00:14:29 GMT
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- Organization: Div. of Computer Science, University of California at Davis
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- (This is a re-post. Sorry for the inconvenience if this appears
- more than once.)
-
- MulSim Multiprocessor Simulator
-
- Norman S. Matloff
- University of California at Davis
- Division of Computer Science
- matloff@heather.cs.ucdavis.edu
- (916) 752-1953
-
- MulSim simulates the operation of a shared-memory multiprocessor system.
- Its processor type is of a RISC design largely similar to the SPARC
- architecture -- i.e. instructions execute in a single cycle, and it
- is a load/store machine, with all arithmetic operations being done in
- register-to-register mode only -- with a system of register windows
- being used to store the runtime stack. User programs are written in
- the assembly language for this architecture.
-
- The user may choose from several types of processor/memory interconnects,
- or may develop his/her own type of interconnect; MulSim has been designed
- in a modular fashion which facilitates the user taking the latter approach.
- There are also optional features which allow the user to do statistics-
- gathering, etc.
-
- The system includes a fairly extensive debugging facility, which can be used
- not only for debugging but also for close examination of program behavior,
- e.g. to help identify how memory contention problems arise.
-
- ********************************************
-
- The MulSim system is available free of charge for noncommercial use, e.g.
- in universities. To obtain a copy, please send e-mail to
-
- matloff@heather.cs.ucdavis.edu
-
- Be sure to specify the type(s) of host machine you wish to run MulSim on
- (presently it is available for SPARCstation, DECstation and DOS systems).
-
-