[Gems-users] SMP vs CMP in GEMS

[Edward Lee <edwl202@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have a very general question to clarify some of my thoughts.

Since GEMS is mainly using serengeti targets which are based on single UltraSparc-III Cu processors. I assume multi-core/CMP concept is more of an emulation of such a chip utilizing these single core processors and changing system parameters accordingly. Is this true?

Accordingly, if we look at the protocols in GEMS there are SMP based and CMP based protocols. So, can we think of SMPs also as CMPs with private caches in GEMS maybe after modifying the latencies to be smaller?

Thanks in advance for any input on this.

Regards,

Ed