To discuss about ESESC, there is a gitter channel (the mailing list are being deprecated)
What is ESESC?
ESESC is a fast multiprocessor simulator with detailed power, thermal, and performance models for modern out-of-order multicores. ESESC is an evolution of the popular SESC simulator (Enhanced SESC) that provides many new features.
The main ESESC characteristics are the following:
- It is very fast (over 40MIPS with sampling)
- Uses QEMU and supports user mode RISCV and MIPS64r6 ISA
- Models OoO and InOrder cores in detail (ROB, Instruction Window, etc)
- Supports configurable memory hierarchy, and on-chip memory controller
- Supports multicore, homogeneous and heterogeneous configurations
- Simulates multithreaded and multiprogram applications
- Models power and temperature in addition to performance, and their interactions
ESESC is a significant evolution/improvement over SESC:
- ESESC has RISCV and MIPS64r6 ISA, sesc had MIPS ISA.
- ESESC can run unmodified Linux RISCV and MIPS binaries, sesc required a custom toolchain.
- ESESC uses QEMU for emulation, sesc had a custom emulator.
- ESESC is integrated with McPat, sesc had an older Wattch model.
- ESESC has a brand new memory hierarchy, sesc had a more complex coherence.
- ESESC has improved thermal modeling, sesc had HotSpot
- ESESC has many types of sampling (statistical, smarts, simpoint), sesc had none.
- ESESC is actively maintained, sesc is no longer mantained.
- ESESC has many bugs solved.
For more information on running ESESC see the docs directory. Use the gitter discussion group for questions.
If you publish research using ESESC please cite the paper ESESC: A Fast Multicore Simulator Using Time-Based Sampling from HPCA 2013.
@INPROCEEDINGS{esesc,
author = {K. Ardestani, E. and Renau, J.},
title = { {ESESC: A Fast Multicore Simulator Using Time-Based Sampling} },
booktitle = {International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture},
series = {HPCA'19},
year = {2013}
}