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Mess GUI

Run Mess from your desktop. Configure benchmarks, launch bandwidth-latency measurements and explore the results using the same engine as the command line.

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macOS · Apple Silicon
Windows · x86-64

Find available packages, installation instructions and system requirements on the download page. Measurements require build tools and a supported bandwidth-counter backend.

Simulator Integrations

Mess-integrated versions of popular architecture simulators

Stable Integrations

Production-ready integrations maintained in BSC repositories

ZSim

Stable

Fast and accurate x86-64 simulator

BSC Mess-simulator repository

main/Integrated/ZSim

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OpenPiton

Stable

Open-source, general-purpose processor

BSC OpenPiton-Mess-integration repository

main

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Work in Progress

Caution: These integrations are available in feature branches and have not yet been merged into official simulator repositories. They may be unstable or incomplete. Use at your own discretion for research purposes.

gem5

WIP

Modular platform for computer-system architecture research

FZJ gem5-dbc repository

MICRO24-MESS

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ChampSim

WIP

Trace-based CPU simulator

Feature branch

Mess

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