Re: [Gems-users] Gems 2.0 Now Available

[Hemayet Hossain <hossain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Luke Yen

As you said "Full support for building apache, zeus, and jbb workload 
checkpoints should be expected in a patch released shortly", can you please tell how short it is (I mean in #weeks)? I was eagerly looking for that.
Thanks,
Hemayet Hossain



Luke Yen wrote:
> GEMS users,
>
>    The GEMS team has put its finishing touches on the new 2.0 release, and 
> it is now available for download at:
>      http://www.cs.wisc.edu/gems/download.html
>
>    Notable features of this release include:
>
>       LogTM-specific features/updates:
>          - single-chip transactional CMP directory protocol, with sticky-M 
> & sticky-S directory states
>          - support for partial rollback, closed and open nesting
>          - support for compensating and commit actions through our software 
> handler
>          - "Perfect" Signature support (can emulate inifite RW bits)
>              and Finite Signature support (Bit-Select & H3)
>          - Summary signature support (Perfect & finite)
>          - Limited LogTM-SE virtualization support, all in simulator*
>          - support for ISCA '07 Pathologies systems:
>                Eager conflict detection, Lazy version management
>                Lazy conflict detection, Lazy version management
>                Eager conflict detection, Eager version management, with & 
> without store-set prediction
>                Hybrid conflict resolution policy
>          - Sample transactional micro-benchmarks
>
>        Please note that the prior SMP LogTM protocol using RW bits is no 
> longer supported in this release.  Finite RW bit (LogTM-like) 
> functionality can be emulated by using "Perfect" signatures & the released 
> CMP protocol.
>       Non-LogTM specific features/updates:
>          - x86 support for Ruby (Thanks Soohong Kim for the patch)
>          - Simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) support in Opal
>          - Protocol fixes
>          - Bash scripts to automate generation of "naked/OS/whatever" 
> checkpoints**
>     *  = We plan on integrating more stable support with OpenSolaris in the 
> future
>     ** = Full support for building apache, zeus, and jbb workload 
> checkpoints should be expected in a patch released shortly.
>
>      The GEMS development team
>
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