Getting Started

• Get the Sniper source code from our Download page

• Download the latest Pin kit from the Pin downloads page
  • Extract Pin into sniper/pin_kit
  • Or set PIN_HOME to the location of Pin if you use a different directory or shared Pin location

• Optional: Set target architecture
  • export TARGET_ARCH=ia32 # default: intel64 (or update Makefile.config)

• Compile Sniper. Some extra dependencies (a pre-compiled copy of the Python interpreter environment) will be downloaded automatically, so make sure you have a working internet connection when you make Sniper for the first time
  • make

• Running an application
  • cd test/fft; make run

Next steps

• Sniper configuration

• Porting applications to Sniper

• Obtaining more benchmarks

• Run multi-programmed workloads

• Accessing simulator hooks from inside an application

• Write scripts to monitor and control simulations

Prerequisites

• GCC 4.3 or higher
• A recent Pin version (for example, 2.10-43611 or newer)
• Boost 1.38+
• Linux 2.6.22 (FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG support)