Using dinero, a Cache Simulator


dineroIII is a trace-driven cache simulator developed by Mark Hill from University of Wisconsin at Madison. Simulation results are determined by the input trace and the cache parameters. A trace is a finite sequence of memory references usually obtained by the interpretive execution of a program or set of programs.

In the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at IIT the simulator runs on the deltas cluster.


Start the simulator

    % dinero < trace_file_name

where the format of the trace file is described in the dinero man page:

    % man dinero

Created August 22, 1996 by: Virgil Bistriceanu - virgil@csam.iit.edu
Last modified: April 20, 1997 by Virgil Bistriceanu