CS 758 Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture Fall 2019 Section 1 Instructor Matthew D. Sinclair URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sinclair/courses/cs758/fall2019/

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 Wiki.

For your project, you may use any computing resources at you disposal, e.g., in CAE, but we cannot guarantee support.

Computer Architecture Specific Software

gem5

• gem5 is the widely used architecture level power simulator that was developed in part at Wisconsin.
• Home page
• Overview Paper
• (AMD) GPGPU Support
• Tutorials
• Docker for Running MI/ML Workloads in gem5 (beta)
• gem5-Aladdin for running accelerators

GPGPU-Sim

• GPGPU-Sim is the widely used (NVIDIA) GPU architecture level simulator, originally developed at UBC and more recently being developed by UBC, Purdue, and Wisconsin.
• Home page
• Repo
• Overview Paper
• Manual
• Tutorials
• Running ML Workloads in GPGPU-Sim
• GPUWattch: GPGPU-Sim's energy model

Wattch

• Wattch is an architecture level power simulator
• Overview paper
• Download wattch

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/

Miscellaneous

• Also see the tools in the WWW Computer Architecture tools page.
• Other tools will be announced with homeworks.