1. Project 11: Influence of the Number of Processors on the Miss Rate Prepared By: Suhaimi bin Mohd Sukor M031010040

2. Project 11 Configure a system with the following architectural characteristics: Cache coherence protocol = MESI. Scheme for bus arbitration = LRU. Word wide (bits) = 16. Words by block = 32 (block size = 64 bytes). Blocks in main memory = 524288 (main memory size = 32 MB). Blocks in cache = 256 (cache size = 16 KB). Mapping = Set-Associative. Cache sets = 64 (four-way set associative caches). Replacement policy = LRU.

3. Question : Does the global miss rate increase or decrease as the number of processors increases? Why? Does this increment or decrement happen for all the benchmarks or does it depend on the different locality grades, shared data,...? What does it happen with the capacity and coherence misses when you enlarge the number of processors? Are there conflict misses in these experiments? Why? Answer The global miss rate will increase as the number of processor increases. By the result, the increment are happened in all benchmarks. Generally, the greater number of processors, the higher miss rate and network traffics.

4. Question: Configure the number of processors in the SMP using the following configurations: 1, 2, 4, and 8. For each of the configurations, obtain the global miss rate for the system using the three traces that were generated by the post-mortem scheme: FFT, Simple and Weather. (Note: To change with Comp, Hydro and Nasa7 with your permission) Answer : I have attached the result by configuring each of the processor using SMP Cache simulator. I have chose Comp, Hydro and Nasa7 traces to get my result.

5. Full Result NO. OF PROCESSOR MISS RATE (%) COMP HYDRONASA7 MISSES NO.MISSES NO. MISSES NO. 19.38992378.97981919.3261173 217.63144519.46441419.892369 418.502467 21.43945622.049409 812.55931722.99048922.049409

7. Result by using Comp traces

8. Using Comp traces No of Processor : 1

9. Using Comp traces No of Processor : 2

10. Using Comp traces No of Processor : 4

11. Using Comp traces No of Processor : 8

12. Using Hydro traces

13. Using Hydro traces No of Processor : 1

14. Using Hydro traces No of Processor : 2

15. Using Hydro traces No of Processor : 4

16. Using Hydro traces No of Processor : 8

17. Using Nasa7 traces

18. Using Nasa7 traces No of Processor : 1

19. Using Nasa7 traces No of Processor : 2

20. Using Nasa7 traces No of Processor : 4

21. Using Nasa7 traces No of Processor : 8

22. Conclusion Question: In conclusion, does the increase of the number of processors improve the multiprocessor system performance? Why and in what sense? Answer: In conclusion, the increase of the number of processors can improve the multiprocessor system performance. However, it depends on the bus bandwidth, if the Multiprocessor System have enough bus bandwidth then the performance will increase, if not the system will slow down.