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GAP Benchmark Suite (GAPBS) tests

This document provides instructions to create a GAP Benchmark Suite (GAPBS) disk image, which, along with provided configuration scripts, may be used to run GAPBS within gem5 simulations.

A pre-build disk image, for X86, can be found, gzipped, here: http://dist.gem5.org/dist/develop/images/x86/ubuntu-18-04/gapbs.img.gz.

Building the Disk Image

Assuming that you are in the src/gapbs/ directory, first create m5 (which is needed to create the disk image):

git clone https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5
cd gem5/util/m5
scons build/x86/out/m5

To create the disk image you need to add the packer binary in the disk-image directory:

cd disk-image/
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.6.0/packer_1.6.0_linux_amd64.zip   # (if packer is not already installed)
unzip packer_1.6.0_linux_amd64.zip # (if packer is not already installed)
./packer validate gapbs/gapbs.json
./packer build gapbs/gapbs.json

After this process succeeds, the disk image can be found on the src/gapbs/disk-image/gapbs-image/gapbs.

GAPBS disk image can support both real and synthetic graph inputs. The current pre-build disk image contains only one graph input which includes the New York city road map (with 733K nodes) it can be found: http://users.diag.uniroma1.it/challenge9/download.shtml.

To use other graphs simply copy the graph in the gapbs/ directory and add them to gapbs/gapbs.json.

gem5 Configuration Scripts

gem5 scripts which configure the system and run the simulation are available in configs/. The main script run_gapbs.py expects following arguments:

  • kernel : A manditory positional argument. The path to the Linux kernel. GAPBS has been tested with vmlinux-5.2.3. See src/linux-kernel for information on building a linux kernel for gem5.

  • disk : A manditory positional argument. The path to the disk image.

  • cpu_type : A manditory positional argument. The cpu model (kvm, atomic, simple, o3).

  • num_cpus : A manditory positional argument. The number of cpu cores.

  • mem_sys : A manditory positional argument. The memory model (classic, MI_example, or MESI_Two_Level).

  • benchmark : A manditory positional argument. The graph workload (cc, bc, bfs, tc, pr, sssp).

  • synthetic : A manditory positional argument. The graph type. If synthetic graph then 1, otherwise 0 for a real world graph.

  • graph : A manditory positional argument. If synthetic, then the size of the graph. Otherwise the name of graph to execute.

Example usage:

<gem5 X86 binary> configs/run_gapbs.py <kernel> <disk> <cpu_type> <num_cpus> <mem_sys> <benchmark> <synthetic> <graph>

Working Status

Working status of these tests for gem5-20 can be found here.