One of the goals of the lab is to advance the state of the art in architectural simulation of large-scale systems and workloads. The lab is therefore working hard on developing a fast and accurate architectural simulator called Sniper.

Sniper is a hardware simulator that walks the line between simulator performance, necessary to simulate complex multi-core hardware, and accuracy. Sniper has been demonstrated to reach scalable simulation speeds of up to 2.0 MIPS when simulating a 16-core system on an 8-core SMP machine and simulates with average absolute errors within 25% for a variety of multi-threaded workloads.

We are excited to announce you that the work on Sniper will be presented at SC’11, one of the premier conferences on High-Performance Computing:

• Sniper: Exploring the Level of Abstraction for Scalable and Accurate Parallel Multi-Core Simulation
• Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
• 3:30-4:00pm, Room TCC 305

Find additional information about the presentation on Sniper or on the SC’11 website.