SimBricks

📺 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨! 📺 We have been working behind the scenes for quite a while on producing 📽️ 🎙️ this new video (you may remember an earlier behind the scenes post). Have a look and let us know what you think. 💬 And after we hopefully sparked your interest, feel free to reach out directly! 📬

𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵! Jakob, Jonas and Marvin had a fantastic time at the 4th and final check-in of the MAX!mize incubator for Max Planck start-ups phase 1. Meeting all the other teams from Batch #4 again was an absolute pleasure and we wish them all the best on their startup journeys. We also took the opportunity to pitch in front of a jury of industry experts once more, which we really enjoyed. We were happy to answer the challenging and insightful questions from the jury members Dr. Richard Hagl, Katharina Severin, Matthias Keckl, and Johannes Bange after our pitch. The experiences we gained during the four check-ins have been invaluable and will help us to develop further and achieve our goals. #Startup #Team #Growth

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻! Jakob, Jonas, Marvin have arrived in Munich for the 4th and final check-in of the MAX!mize incubator for Max Planck start-ups phase 1. We are looking forward to many interesting workshops and meeting all the other teams from Batch #4 again. We are also excited to pitch in front of a jury of industry experts once again on Wednesday! #Startup #Team #Workshops

In today's blog post, Marvin discusses how to reduce the resource requirements of large-scale network system Virtual Prototypes, while maintaining good accuracy and keeping execution times low. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e_dga6sH #VirtualPrototyping #Networks #Simulation

𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀, 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 With SimBricks, we can create very detailed virtual prototypes of full systems. However, when prototyping large-scale systems, for example for evaluating new data center network topologies and protocols, the resource requirements can grow very large, possibly requiring 1000s of CPU cores. Obviously, this makes it infeasible to run the virtual prototype on a single machine. Although it is possible to distribute the virtual prototype among multiple machines, using 10s of machines is still costly. To make large-scale virtual prototypes more resource-efficient and even increase simulation speeds, we can employ different optimization techniques techniques while maintaining good accuracy: 𝟭) 𝗠𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱-𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Our virtual prototypes use simulators to model the various components of the system. Using less detailed simulators for non-critical components, we can reduce resource usage with limited loss in accuracy, for example, to generate background load in the network. 𝟮) 𝗦𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: We can split simulators suffering from high load due to simulating many components into smaller pieces and connect them again using SimBricks. This effectively parallelizes simulators and speeds up the overall simulation without any loss in accuracy. Stay tuned for an upcoming blog post in which Marvin will discuss how these techniques can be used to realize virtual prototypes of large-scale network systems. #VirutalPrototyping #Simulation #Networks

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦! 🎉 As we head into 2025, we are excited to be back in the office and to dive headfirst into the work we started at December's hackathon. We are building on the incredible progress we made and are pushing forward to make SimBricks even better for our upcoming release: Setting up tooling or sharing resources among users to simulate virtual prototypes can be difficult. That is why we are going to introduce a feature that enables users to register "Runners" similar to the concept of Runners employed by GitLab's CI for running simulations conveniently. This will facilitate resource sharing among users. In addition, SimBricks is going to be able to automatically distribute the simulation of large virtual prototypes across multiple Runners and optimize resource utilization, which significantly improves SimBricks current approach to distributed simulations. Besides, we are about to release a new orchestration framework that will offer greater flexibility and streamline configuring simulations by allowing users to separate the description of their virtual prototypes from the concrete choice of how to simulate it. If you are interested to learn more about how SimBricks works and how it can help you to design and verify computer hardware, please feel free to reach out to us or check out our website: https://lnkd.in/efhXRnDZ #HappyNewYear #Startup #Teamwork #VirtualPrototyping

In today's blog post, Jonas shares how to estimate full-system energy usage during hardware development using SimBricks Virtual Prototypes ⚡ Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eGdChjpT #VirtualPrototyping #EnergyEstimation

📝 Stay tuned for an upcoming blog post where Jonas will share more details!

𝗔𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 (Hejing, Jonas, Jakob, Marvin, Antoine) 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! After much time spent on other startup activities recently, this was an excellent opportunity for the team to come together and focus on the fun technical bits for a change. We picked up a couple larger technical pieces that have been on the TODO list for a while and made substantial progress on each. We focused on improving support for distributed simulations and for sharing SimBricks infrastructure between multiple users. There are some radical improvements coming to how users interact with SimBricks and how SimBricks works internally. It was a fantastic opportunity for the team to sit together, brainstorm, and have fun. We are looking forward to more such productive and entertaining sessions! Stay tuned to learn more next year as we will release more details on the new  and improved SimBricks! #Startup #Teamwork #VirtualPrototyping

We now also congratulate Jonas on submitting his Master's thesis! 🎉 Jonas explored using SimBricks virtual prototypes to estimate the energy consumption of heterogeneous systems, a topic that will also play a role in the SimBricks startup ⚡ With his work, he forged the first steps to meaningfully evaluate the performance-energy trade-off for early design choices in hardware-accelerated computer systems. Stay tuned for a future blog post when he shares more about this. Today, Jonas is already back in the office to proudly present his thesis to his academic father. With this, team SimBricks is now back to full strength. #VirtualPrototyping #Startup #Team