Tracera

Tracera is a trace-based simulator for tightly-coupled GPU architectures.

Prerequisites

• Pin 2.13 build 65163
• Pypy 2.3.1 or newer

Installation

• Modify the first line of simulator/simulator.py to point to where pypy is installed. Pypy makes the simulation over 10x faster than using cPython.
• Modify the PIN_ROOT variable in trace_generator/makefile to point to where Pin is installed.

Usage

• Benchmarks need to be annotated before the trace generator is run on them. See the wiki for how to do so.
• scripts/trace.sh shows how to run the trace generator on the benchmark binary.
• The main simulator script is simulator/simulator.py. An example simulator configuration file is in simulator/configs/tau_config.py.