6. Application notes
All 14 announcements and articles from the project's twenty years, newest first.
Ten years after choosing Java to make EduMIPS64 cross-platform, the team cross-compiled the simulator core to JavaScript with GWT/JsInterop, publishing a crude proof-of-concept web UI for the project's 10th anniversary. Read more →
The VPS that hosted the web site is being turned down, so we migrated the web site to GitHub pages. The old contents have been backed up and might be added to this new site over time.
P.S. on 15 March, we deleted the project on Google Code, since the service is shutting down. All the development will continue, as usual on GitHub, and release will be uploaded on GitHub and SourceForge.
We added to our Travis CI configuration the automatic build of JAR files, so if you want to try the bleeding edge you can do it without having to compile it. The URL pointing to the always up-to-date JAR is http://lupino3.github.io/edumips64/edumips64-latest.jar. Be aware that it might be unstable.
The VPS hosting the edumips.org website was being shut down, so the site was migrated to a new VPS; some downtime was expected during the move. Read more →
All the source code has been moved to github, the SVN repository has been retired.
A paper about EduMIPS64 has been published by the IEEE Transactions on Education; it is about the usage of the simulator in undergraduate computer architecture courses. You can find the pdf here.
The EduMIPS64 source code repository was converted from SVN to git and pushed to both Google Code and GitHub, with GitHub soon becoming the main repository. Read more →
A nasty bug broke EduMIPS64 under Mac OS X Snow Leopard; with 187 SVN commits to check, the team used bisection to narrow it down to the offending commit in about 10 update/compile/test cycles. Read more →
The Slicehost VPS hosting the EduMIPS64 web site and SVN repository went down; the outage turned out to be a 6-hour Slicehost incident with no data loss. Read more →
EduMIPS64 0.5.3 is almost ready thanks to bug reports from Computer Architecture students at the University of Catania; only a Mac OS X regression remains before release. Read more →
After noticing the simulator had become considerably slower, the EduMIPS64 team used the YourKit Java Profiler (kindly provided free for open source projects) to find and start fixing bottlenecks. Read more →
The EduMIPS64 user documentation, split across a LaTeX-based PDF manual and a separate in-application text help, needed a single source with multiple outputs; the team explored Sphinx and reStructuredText to fix it. Read more →
Before adding new features, the EduMIPS64 team decided to first build a test suite, looking at how other CPU simulators like SPIM approached testing for inspiration. Read more →
In 2006, a small group of undergraduate students at the University of Catania, unsatisfied with existing MIPS64 simulators, decided to design and write their own. This post is a snapshot of the EduMIPS64 code base as of April 2011. Read more →