Getting Started

• Get the Sniper source code from our Download page

• Download a Pin kit from the Pin downloads page
  • Do not use any (new) version that uses PinCRT. Currently the (older) revision 71313 is still available which is known to work with Sniper
  • 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 SNIPER_TARGET_ARCH=ia32 # default: intel64 (or update Makefile.config)
  • sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 g++-4.4-multilib lib32z1-dev # install 32-bit libraries if running 64-bit OS (Ubuntu in this case) and the g++ multilib version depends on the g++ version that you are using

• 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 # or use 'make -j N' where N is the number of cores in your machine to use parallel 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, 2.14-71313 or newer)
• Boost 1.38+
• Linux 2.6.22+