Continuing in the trend I’ve established with some technical tutorials that have proven to be useful to others, I’ve decided to write another brief one, this time focusing on Git version control for researchers. Why the emphasis on researchers? One often comes across academic code that is poorly …

It appears that a good number of people found my articles from 2013 on building gem5 and SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks for Alpha useful! So due to some requests I’ve decided to make an additional post on how to get the SPEC benchmarks and gem5 you set up actually running. This tutorial will show you how …

This guide will show you how to cross-compile SPEC2006 for Alpha using your regular old Ubuntu machine running on Intel. In particular, I have done this so that they can be run in gem5 for the Alpha ISA. I assume that you have a copy of the SPEC benchmarks and the input vectors. Extract SPEC2006 …

In this guide, I will walk you through a quick way to get gem5 built for the Alpha ISA using a Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit host. I have not tried these methods on any other platform. If you get stuck, you can always refer to the documentation at gem5.org. Nothing is presented here that doesn’t already exist …