Binary rewriting, machine emulation, etc

• Virtual machine emulation (Rosenblum@Stanfond) :

  • SimOS, VMware: emulates the entire machine
  • Disco: run SMP OS on NUMA cluster

• Binary rewriting

  • Eraser (Savage@UW): dynamic race detection
  • Etch (UW): atom for i386
  • Kimera (egs@UW): distributed Java virtual machine
  • Shasta (SRC) : DSM converter for commercial SMP app

• Low-level performance measurement

  • DCPI (SRC/WRL): pinpoint cache miss, pipeline stall, etc

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