Releases

Recent Sniper Releases

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