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@@ -24,8 +24,13 @@ Version 3.1.0 versus 3.0.2 writebacks that were not considered by the operand collector. - Fix for a bug that caused global symbol tables to be re-initialized after parsing each ptx file. - - Fix for a rare race condition that prevented kernel stats from being printed + - Fix for a rare race condition that prevented kernel stats from being + printed - Fix for a bug that caused sim rates to be double the actual value + - Fix for a bug that caused atomic accesses not to have a payload to the + Atomic Operation Unit; atomic accesses now have a payload both to and + from the Atomic Operation Unit + - Fixed a bug that caused deadlock check to be ommitted Version 3.0.2 versus 3.0.1 - Added Fermi configuration @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ See Section 2 "INSTALLING, BUILDING and RUNNING GPGPU-Sim" below to get started. GPGPU-Sim was created by Tor Aamodt's research group at the University of British Columbia. Many students have contributed including: Wilson W.L. Fung, Ali Bakhoda, George Yuan, Ivan Sham, Henry Wong, Henry Tran, Andrew Turner, -Aaron Ariel, Inderpret Singh, Tim Rogers, Jimmy Kwa, and others. +Aaron Ariel, Inderpret Singh, Tim Rogers, Jimmy Kwa, Andrew Boktor and others. GPGPU-Sim models the features of a modern graphics processor that are relevant to non-graphics applications. The first version of GPGPU-Sim was used in a @@ -54,6 +54,29 @@ version 11.3) and has been used on several other Linux platforms (both 32-bit and 64-bit systems). In principle, GPGPU-Sim should work with any linux distribution as long as the following software dependencies are satisfied. +Step 0: Getting GPGPU-Sim +========================= +To get GPGPU-Sim, you need git (a widely used source code management system) +to be installed on your system. +Run the following command to get the source code of GPGPU-Sim for the first +time: + +git clone git://dev.ece.ubc.ca/gpgpu-sim + +If you have already obtained GPGPU-Sim and would like to get the latest updates +and bug fixes, run the following command in the root directory of GPGPU-Sim: + +git pull + +While pulling the latest changes, conflicts might arise due to changes that you +made to your codebase that conflict with the latest updates. In this case, you +need to resolved those conflicts manually. You can either edit the conflicting +files directly using your favorite text editor, or you can use the following +command to open a graphical merge tool to do the merge: + +git mergetool + + Step 1: Dependencies ==================== @@ -95,8 +118,7 @@ AerialVision dependencies: * libpng12-dev * python-matplotlib -We used gcc/g++ version 4.3.2 with CUDA SDK version 3.1 or 4.5.1 for later CUDA -SDK versions. We used bison version 2.3, and flex version 2.5.33. +We used gcc/g++ version 4.5.1, bison version 2.4.1, and flex version 2.5.35. If you are using Ubuntu, the following commands will install all required dependencies besides the CUDA Toolkit. @@ -174,7 +196,6 @@ file to "1" (Note: you need CUDA version 4.0 or higher) as follows: -gpgpu_ptx_use_cuobjdump 1 -gpgpu_ptx_convert_to_ptxplus 1 --gpgpu_ptx_save_converted_ptxplus 1 Now To run a CUDA application on the simulator, simply execute |