msultan2002/mcftp

McFTP

Multicore Fast Thermal Prototyping framework

Very simple instruction of installation:

Prerequisites:

OS: POSIX compliant systems
third-party tools:
(1)cpupower, to control the running frequency
(2)lm-sensors, to read temperature sensor results
hardware: The CPU should have built-in temperature sensors

Installation:

change the CMakeLists.txt in the top directory, if necessary

by default, the two feature, reading hardware temperature sensors and estimating temperature based on performance counters, are both enabled. The user can disable and enable them by changing the line 3 and 4 of the CMakeLists.txt in the top directory. For example, to disable reading hardware sensors, change line 3 to: set(HARD_TEMPERATURE_SENSOR_ENABLE "OFF")

pre-complile PAPI, if you want to use the software temperature estimator

cd third_party_lib/papi-5.5.1/src

./configure

make

sudo make install-all

make and go to the program build directory

mkdir build

cd build

cmake

cmake ..

compile the program

make

run the program:

first change the cpu frquency governor as userspace, if you want to control the cpu frequency

a. sudo cpupower -c all frequency-set -g userspace

then go to the program directory

b. cd build

run the program

c. sudo ./mcftp XMLFILENAME

The XMLFILENAME should specify the path to the xml file which describes the settings of the experiment.