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== Recent Sniper Releases ==
 
== Recent Sniper Releases ==
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=== Version 3.05 (August 7th, 2012) ===
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* Scheduler: expose application ID
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* Add example script roi-iter.py to dynamically select ROI based on SimMarkers
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* CPI stacks: --aggregate and --partial support, fixes for heterogeneous configurations
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* Traces: support for 32-bit executables
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* Build fixes for older Linux versions
  
 
=== Version 3.04 (July 18th, 2012) ===
 
=== Version 3.04 (July 18th, 2012) ===

Revision as of 01:22, 7 August 2012

Recent Sniper Releases

Version 3.05 (August 7th, 2012)

  • Scheduler: expose application ID
  • Add example script roi-iter.py to dynamically select ROI based on SimMarkers
  • CPI stacks: --aggregate and --partial support, fixes for heterogeneous configurations
  • Traces: support for 32-bit executables
  • Build fixes for older Linux versions

Version 3.04 (July 18th, 2012)

  • Support for running multiple multi-threaded workloads in a single simulation
  • McPAT fixes for heterogeneous configurations
  • Build system fixes for newer Linux versions

Version 3.03 (June 28th, 2012)

  • Bugfixes in configuration parser, starting of multi-program workloads

Version 3.02 (June 25th, 2012)

  • Fixes for specifying heterogeneous configurations
  • L2 prefetcher improvements
  • Perfect cache modeling
  • Self-modifying code support
  • PyControl scripting interface
  • GCC 4.7 support
  • McPAT integration for area, power and energy predictions

Version 3.01 (June 12th, 2012)

  • Add heterogeneous cache configuration support
  • Emulate pause, sleep system calls
  • Improve support for 32-bit applications
  • Pin 2.11 support

Version 3.0 (May 16th, 2012)

  • Support for heterogeneous core types
  • Separate core microarchitectural characteristics into CoreModel class
  • Improve CPI stack detail
  • Add initial implementation for basic L2 prefetcher
  • Optionally access DRAM directly in configurations with a single LLC
  • Deprecate replacement of pthread_* synchronization calls
  • Support more SYS_futex options
  • Remove unused code for Graphite FULL mode
  • Fixes to the build system, including parallel builds (make -j)
  • Support for building on 32-bit hosts
  • Remove configuration defaults from code, require everything to be specified in a configuration file