by Dimitris Gizopoulos on Dec 8, 2025 | Tags: AI accelerator, Microprocessor, Modeling, Reliability, Simulators
Microarchitecture simulators have been conceived and implemented to be valuable tools for the design of computing chips of all types (SimpleScalar, gem5, SMTSIM, Sniper, Qflex, Scarab, GPGPU-sim, Accel-Sim, Multi2Sim, NaviSim, SCALE-sim, gem5-Salam, TAO, PyTorchSim –...
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by Jason Lowe-Power on Jul 26, 2024 | Tags: gem5, Simulators
It’s been almost 5 years since the last post on the SIGARCH blog about gem5. In that post, we talked about improving community outreach, providing a simpler interface to get started with gem5, and adding support for full machine learning stacks. I’m excited to say...
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by Jason Lowe-Power and Matt Sinclair on Sep 12, 2019 | Tags: Measurements, Methodology, Simulators
RE-gem5 is a directed effort to rejuvenate the underlying infrastructure of gem5. RE-gem5 is not a new simulator or a new project; it is a project to enhance and support the current gem5 infrastructure. The community-developed gem5 infrastructure is one of the most...
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