RSIM An Execution Driven Simulator for ILP Based Shared Memory Multiprocessors and Uniprocessors

This paper describes RSIM the Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors Version RSIM sim ulates shared memory multiprocessors and unipro cessors built from processors that aggressively ex ploit instruction level parallelism ILP RSIM is execution driven and models state of the art ILP pro cessors an aggressive memory system and a multi processor coherence protocol and interconnect includ ing contention at all resources Although originally designed as a research tool RSIM is also being used successfully in both undergraduate and graduate com puter architecture courses at Rice University RSIM version is publicly available