CS752: Advanced Computer Architecture I : Tools

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CS/ECE 752 Advanced Computer Architecture I

Spring 2007
Instructor: Karu Sankaralingam; URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~karu
Meeting time: MECH ENGR 1143, 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM, MWF
Office hours: Monday,Wednesday 3-4pm, Thursday: 11-12am
TA: Derek Hower
Course URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~karu/courses/cs752/Spring2007/
Mailing list: compsci752-1-s07@lists.wisc.edu

Tools

Computer Science Lab

The Computer Science Lab provides official computing for this class.

Getting Started with information and links on activating a CS account, machines, Unix classes (usually first or second week of classes), and CSL policies.
Complete Computer Systems Lab Documentation (including FAQ).

Software

SimpleScalar
Condor
- Condor Manual: Section 2.5 which explains how to submit a Condor job might be useful.
- Also read the following http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/uwcs/
Wattch - power simulator based on Simplescalar
Simics download for class.
Sim-alpha: A validated microarchitecture simulator that simulates the Alpha 21264. This is a much more detailed simulator compared to Simplescalar
Simplescalar with memory extensions.

Hardware

I will soon add information for Verilog, GPU tools, and FPGA tools. If you need this information now come talk to me.