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| ## gem5 Resources |
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| gem5 resources is a repository providing sources for artifacts known and proven compatible with the [gem5 architecture simulator](https://gem5.org). |
| These resources are not necessary for the compilation or running of gem5, but may aid users in producing certain simulations. |
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| ## Why gem5 Resources? |
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| gem5 has been designed with flexibility in mind. Users may simulate a wide variety of hardware, with an equally wide variety of workloads. |
| However, requiring users to find and configure workloads for gem5 (their own disk images, their own OS boots, their own tests, etc.) is a significant investment, and a hurdle to many. |
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| The purpose of gem5 resources is therefore *to provide a stable set of commonly used resources, with proven and documented compatibility with gem5*. |
| In addition to this, gem5 resources also puts emphasis on *reproducibility of experiments* by providing citable, stable resources, tied to a particular release of gem5. |
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| ## Using gem5 resources |
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| If you find one of the gem5-resources useful be sure to cite both the resources (see the README) and the [gem5art and gem5-resources paper](https://arch.cs.ucdavis.edu/assets/papers/ispass21-gem5art.pdf). |
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| ```bibtex |
| @inproceedings{bruce2021gem5art, |
| title={Enabling Reproducible and Agile Full-System Simulation}, |
| author={Bruce, Bobby R. and Akram, Ayaz and Nguyen, Hoa and Roarty, Kyle and Samani, Mahyar and Fariborz, Marjan and Trivikram, Reddy and Sinclair, Matthew D. and Lowe-Power, Jason}, |
| booktitle={In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS '21)}, |
| year={2021}, |
| organization={IEEE} |
| } |
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| ``` |
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| ## UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
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| This website is under construction. |
| You can see the following links for the current information on gem5-resources. |
| More information will be here soon! |
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| * [Documentation on gem5-resources](http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/gem5_resources/) |
| * [Source for gem5-resources](https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5-resources/+/refs/heads/stable/) |
| * [README for gem5-resources]({{'README' | relative_url}}) |
| * [The gem5art and gem5-resources paper](https://arch.cs.ucdavis.edu/assets/papers/ispass21-gem5art.pdf) |
