Setting up GPGPU-sim on Tera

I wanted a place to compile what I found about how to get GPGPU sim up and running on Tera and make a list of the things that needs to be sort out.

First off, here are the list of dependencies that we need to get installed on linux to build the code(from README document). The items in bold are the dpendencies that need to be installed on Tera. Ones not in bold have already been installed.

GPGPU-Sim dependencies:

• gcc
• g++
• make
• makedepend
• xutils
• bison
• flex
• zlib
• CUDA Toolkit

GPGPU-Sim documentation dependencies:

• doxygen
• graphvi

As shown above, to run GPGPU-sim, we need to have CUDA installed. Unfortunately, Tera do not have CUDA-enabled GPUs and NVDIA dropped support for CUDA emulation on non-CUDA machines starting v3.1. Fortunately, GPGPU-sim supports CUDA version 2.3, 3.1 and 4.0, so CUDA emulation should still work if we install version 2.3.