Running a Cluster Simulation

Now, let’s move on to simulating a cluster of eight nodes, interconnected by a network with one 8-port Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch and 200 Gbps, 2μs links. This will require one f1.16xlarge (8 FPGA) instance.

Make sure you are ssh or mosh’d into your manager instance and have sourced sourceme-manager.sh before running any of these commands.

Building target software

If you already built target software during the single-node getting started guide, you can skip to the next part (Setting up the manager configuration). If you haven’t followed the single-node getting started guide, continue with this section.

In these instructions, we’ll assume that you want to boot the buildroot-based Linux distribution on each of the nodes in your simulated cluster. To do so, we’ll need to build our FireSim-compatible RISC-V Linux distro. You can do this like so:

cd ${CY_DIR}/software/firemarshal
./marshal -v build br-base.json
./marshal -v install br-base.json

This process will take about 10 to 15 minutes on a c5.4xlarge instance. Once this is completed, you’ll have the following files:

  • ${CY_DIR}/software/firemarshal/images/firechip/br-base/br-base-bin - a bootloader + Linux kernel image for the nodes we will simulate.

  • ${CY_DIR}/software/firemarshal/images/firechip/br-base/br-base.img - a disk image for each the nodes we will simulate

These files will be used to form base images to either build more complicated workloads (see the [DEPRECATED] Defining Custom Workloads section) or to copy around for deploying.

Setting up the manager configuration

All runtime configuration options for the manager are set in a file called ${FS_DIR}/deploy/config_runtime.yaml. In this guide, we will explain only the parts of this file necessary for our purposes. You can find full descriptions of all of the parameters in the Manager Configuration Files section.

If you open up this file, you will see the following default config (assuming you have not modified it):

# RUNTIME configuration for the FireSim Simulation Manager
# See https://docs.fires.im/en/stable/Advanced-Usage/Manager/Manager-Configuration-Files.html for documentation of all of these params.

run_farm:
  base_recipe: run-farm-recipes/aws_ec2.yaml
  recipe_arg_overrides:
    # tag to apply to run farm hosts
    run_farm_tag: mainrunfarm
    # enable expanding run farm by run_farm_hosts given
    always_expand_run_farm: true
    # minutes to retry attempting to request instances
    launch_instances_timeout_minutes: 60
    # run farm host market to use (ondemand, spot)
    run_instance_market: ondemand
    # if using spot instances, determine the interrupt behavior (terminate, stop, hibernate)
    spot_interruption_behavior: terminate
    # if using spot instances, determine the max price
    spot_max_price: ondemand
    # default location of the simulation directory on the run farm host
    default_simulation_dir: /home/centos

    # run farm hosts to spawn: a mapping from a spec below (which is an EC2
    # instance type) to the number of instances of the given type that you
    # want in your runfarm.
    run_farm_hosts_to_use:
      - f1.16xlarge: 0
      - f1.4xlarge: 0
      - f1.2xlarge: 1
      - m4.16xlarge: 0
      - z1d.3xlarge: 0
      - z1d.6xlarge: 0
      - z1d.12xlarge: 0

metasimulation:
  metasimulation_enabled: false
  # vcs or verilator. use vcs-debug or verilator-debug for waveform generation
  metasimulation_host_simulator: verilator
  # plusargs passed to the simulator for all metasimulations
  metasimulation_only_plusargs: "+fesvr-step-size=128 +max-cycles=100000000"
  # plusargs passed to the simulator ONLY FOR vcs metasimulations
  metasimulation_only_vcs_plusargs: "+vcs+initreg+0 +vcs+initmem+0"

target_config:
    topology: no_net_config
    no_net_num_nodes: 1
    link_latency: 6405
    switching_latency: 10
    net_bandwidth: 200
    profile_interval: -1

    # This references a section from config_hwdb.yaml for fpga-accelerated simulation
    # or from config_build_recipes.yaml for metasimulation
    # In homogeneous configurations, use this to set the hardware config deployed
    # for all simulators
    default_hw_config: midasexamples_gcd

    # Advanced: Specify any extra plusargs you would like to provide when
    # booting the simulator (in both FPGA-sim and metasim modes). This is
    # a string, with the contents formatted as if you were passing the plusargs
    # at command line, e.g. "+a=1 +b=2"
    plusarg_passthrough: ""

tracing:
    enable: no

    # Trace output formats. Only enabled if "enable" is set to "yes" above
    # 0 = human readable; 1 = binary (compressed raw data); 2 = flamegraph (stack
    # unwinding -> Flame Graph)
    output_format: 0

    # Trigger selector.
    # 0 = no trigger; 1 = cycle count trigger; 2 = program counter trigger; 3 =
    # instruction trigger
    selector: 1
    start: 0
    end: -1

autocounter:
    read_rate: 0

workload:
    workload_name: null.json
    terminate_on_completion: no
    suffix_tag: null

host_debug:
    # When enabled (=yes), Zeros-out FPGA-attached DRAM before simulations
    # begin (takes 2-5 minutes).
    # In general, this is not required to produce deterministic simulations on
    # target machines running linux. Enable if you observe simulation non-determinism.
    zero_out_dram: no
    # If disable_synth_asserts: no, simulation will print assertion message and
    # terminate simulation if synthesized assertion fires.
    # If disable_synth_asserts: yes, simulation ignores assertion firing and
    # continues simulation.
    disable_synth_asserts: no

# DOCREF START: Synthesized Prints
synth_print:
    # Start and end cycles for outputting synthesized prints.
    # They are given in terms of the base clock and will be converted
    # for each clock domain.
    start: 0
    end: -1
    # When enabled (=yes), prefix print output with the target cycle at which the print was triggered
    cycle_prefix: yes
# DOCREF END: Synthesized Prints

For the 8-node cluster simulation, the defaults in this file are close to what we want but require slight modification. Let’s outline the important parameters we need to change:

  • f1.16xlarges:: Change this parameter to 1. This tells the manager that we want to launch one f1.16xlarge when we call the launchrunfarm command.

  • f1.2xlarges:: Change this parameter to 0. This tells the manager to not launch any f1.2xlarge machines when we call the launchrunfarm command.

  • topology:: Change this parameter to example_8config. This tells the manager to use the topology named example_8config which is defined in deploy/runtools/user_topology.py. This topology simulates an 8-node cluster with one ToR switch.

  • default_hw_config: Change this parameter to firesim_rocket_quadcore_nic_l2_llc4mb_ddr3. This tells the manager that we want to simulate a quad-core Rocket Chip configuration with 512 KB of L2, 4 MB of L3 (LLC), 16 GB of DDR3, and a NIC, for each of the simulated nodes in the topology.

Attention

[Advanced users] Simulating BOOM instead of Rocket Chip: If you would like to simulate a single-core BOOM as a target, set default_hw_config to firesim_boom_singlecore_nic_l2_llc4mb_ddr3.

There are also some parameters that we won’t need to change, but are worth highlighting:

  • link_latency: 6405: This models a network with 6405 cycles of link latency. Since we are modeling processors running at 3.2 Ghz, 1 cycle = 1/3.2 ns, so 6405 cycles is roughly 2 microseconds.

  • switching_latency: 10: This models switches with a minimum port-to-port latency of 10 cycles.

  • net_bandwidth: 200: This sets the bandwidth of the NICs to 200 Gbit/s. Currently you can set any integer value less than this without making hardware modifications.

You’ll see other parameters here, like run_instance_market, spot_interruption_behavior, and spot_max_price. If you’re an experienced AWS user, you can see what these do by looking at the Manager Configuration Files section. Otherwise, don’t change them.

As in the single-node getting started guide, we will leave the workload: mapping unchanged here, since we want to run the default buildroot-based Linux on our simulated system. The terminate_on_completion feature is an advanced feature that you can learn more about in the Manager Configuration Files section.

Launching a Simulation!

Now that we’ve told the manager everything it needs to know in order to run our single-node simulation, let’s actually launch an instance and run it!

Starting the Run Farm

First, we will tell the manager to launch our Run Farm, as we specified above. When you do this, you will start getting charged for the running EC2 instances (in addition to your manager).

To do launch your run farm, run:

firesim launchrunfarm -a ${CY_DIR}/sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_hwdb.yaml -r ${CY_DIR}/sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_build_recipes.yaml

You should expect output like the following:

FireSim Manager. Docs: http://docs.fires.im
Running: launchrunfarm

Waiting for instance boots: f1.16xlarges
i-09e5491cce4d5f92d booted!
Waiting for instance boots: f1.4xlarges
Waiting for instance boots: m4.16xlarges
Waiting for instance boots: f1.2xlarges
The full log of this run is:
/home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/logs/2018-05-19--06-05-53-launchrunfarm-ZGVP753DSU1Y9Q6R.log

The output will rapidly progress to Waiting for instance boots: f1.16xlarges and then take a minute or two while your f1.16xlarge instance launches. Once the launches complete, you should see the instance id printed and the instance will also be visible in your AWS EC2 Management console. The manager will tag the instances launched with this operation with the value you specified above as the run_farm_tag parameter from the config_runtime.yaml file, which we left set as mainrunfarm. This value allows the manager to tell multiple Run Farms apart – i.e., you can have multiple independent Run Farms running different workloads/hardware configurations in parallel. This is detailed in the Manager Configuration Files and the firesim launchrunfarm sections – you do not need to be familiar with it here.

Setting up the simulation infrastructure

The manager will also take care of building and deploying all software components necessary to run your simulation (including switches for the networked case). The manager will also handle programming FPGAs. To tell the manager to set up our simulation infrastructure, let’s run:

firesim infrasetup -a ${CY_DIR}sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_hwdb.yaml -r ${CY_DIR}/sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_build_recipes.yaml

For a complete run, you should expect output like the following:

FireSim Manager. Docs: http://docs.fires.im
Running: infrasetup

Building FPGA software driver for FireSim-FireSimQuadRocketConfig-BaseF1Config
Building switch model binary for switch switch0
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'instance_liveness'
[172.30.2.178] Checking if host instance is up...
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'infrasetup_node_wrapper'
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 0.
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 1.
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 2.
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 3.
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 4.
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 5.
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 6.
[172.30.2.178] Copying FPGA simulation infrastructure for slot: 7.
[172.30.2.178] Installing AWS FPGA SDK on remote nodes.
[172.30.2.178] Unloading XDMA/EDMA/XOCL Driver Kernel Module.
[172.30.2.178] Copying AWS FPGA XDMA driver to remote node.
[172.30.2.178] Loading XDMA Driver Kernel Module.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 0.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 1.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 2.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 3.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 4.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 5.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 6.
[172.30.2.178] Clearing FPGA Slot 7.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 0 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 1 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 2 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 3 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 4 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 5 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 6 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Flashing FPGA Slot: 7 with agfi: agfi-09e85ffabe3543903.
[172.30.2.178] Unloading XDMA/EDMA/XOCL Driver Kernel Module.
[172.30.2.178] Loading XDMA Driver Kernel Module.
[172.30.2.178] Copying switch simulation infrastructure for switch slot: 0.
The full log of this run is:
/home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/logs/2018-05-19--06-07-33-infrasetup-2Z7EBCBIF2TSI66Q.log

Many of these tasks will take several minutes, especially on a clean copy of the repo (in particular, f1.16xlarges usually take a couple of minutes to start, so don’t be alarmed if you’re stuck at Checking if host instance is up...) . The console output here contains the “user-friendly” version of the output. If you want to see detailed progress as it happens, tail -f the latest logfile in firesim/deploy/logs/.

At this point, the f1.16xlarge instance in our Run Farm has all the infrastructure necessary to run everything in our simulation.

So, let’s launch our simulation!

Running the simulation

Finally, let’s run our simulation! To do so, run:

firesim runworkload -a ${CY_DIR}/sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_hwdb.yaml -r ${CY_DIR}/sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_build_recipes.yaml

This command boots up the 8-port switch simulation and then starts 8 Rocket Chip FPGA Simulations, then prints out the live status of the simulated nodes and switch every 10s. When you do this, you will initially see output like:

FireSim Manager. Docs: http://docs.fires.im
Running: runworkload

Creating the directory: /home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/results-workload/2018-05-19--06-28-43-br-base/
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'instance_liveness'
[172.30.2.178] Checking if host instance is up...
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'boot_switch_wrapper'
[172.30.2.178] Starting switch simulation for switch slot: 0.
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'boot_simulation_wrapper'
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 0.
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 1.
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 2.
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 3.
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 4.
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 5.
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 6.
[172.30.2.178] Starting FPGA simulation for slot: 7.
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'monitor_jobs_wrapper'

If you don’t look quickly, you might miss it, because it will be replaced with a live status page once simulations are kicked-off:

FireSim Simulation Status @ 2018-05-19 06:28:56.087472
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This workload's output is located in:
/home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/results-workload/2018-05-19--06-28-43-br-base/
This run's log is located in:
/home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/logs/2018-05-19--06-28-43-runworkload-ZHZEJED9MDWNSCV7.log
This status will update every 10s.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Instances
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Terminated: False
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simulated Switches
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Switch name: switch0 | Switch running: True
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simulated Nodes/Jobs
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base1 | Sim running: True
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base0 | Sim running: True
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base3 | Sim running: True
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base2 | Sim running: True
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base5 | Sim running: True
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base4 | Sim running: True
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base7 | Sim running: True
Hostname/IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base6 | Sim running: True
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/1 instances are still running.
8/8 simulations are still running.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In cycle-accurate networked mode, this will exit when any ONE of the simulated nodes shuts down. So, let’s let it run and open another ssh connection to the manager instance. From there, cd into your firesim directory again and source sourceme-manager.sh again to get our ssh key setup. To access our simulated system, ssh into the IP address being printed by the status page, from your manager instance. In our case, from the above output, we see that our simulated system is running on the instance with IP 172.30.2.178. So, run:

[RUN THIS ON YOUR MANAGER INSTANCE!]
ssh 172.30.2.178

This will log you into the instance running the simulation. On this machine, run screen -ls to get the list of all running simulation components. Attaching to the screens fsim0 to fsim7 will let you attach to the consoles of any of the 8 simulated nodes. You’ll also notice an additional screen for the switch, however by default there is no interesting output printed here for performance reasons.

For example, if we want to enter commands into node zero, we can attach to its console like so:

screen -r fsim0

Voila! You should now see Linux booting on the simulated node and then be prompted with a Linux login prompt, like so:

[truncated Linux boot output]
[    0.020000] Registered IceNet NIC 00:12:6d:00:00:02
[    0.020000] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 254:0.
[    0.020000] devtmpfs: mounted
[    0.020000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 140K
[    0.020000] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
mount: mounting sysfs on /sys failed: No such device
Starting logging: OK
Starting mdev...
mdev: /sys/dev: No such file or directory
modprobe: can't change directory to '/lib/modules': No such file or directory
Initializing random number generator... done.
Starting network: OK
Starting dropbear sshd: OK

Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login:

If you also ran the single-node no-nic simulation you’ll notice a difference in this boot output – here, Linux sees the NIC and its assigned MAC address and automatically brings up the eth0 interface at boot.

Now, you can login to the system! The username is root and there is no password. At this point, you should be presented with a regular console, where you can type commands into the simulation and run programs. For example:

Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login: root
Password:
# uname -a
Linux buildroot 4.15.0-rc6-31580-g9c3074b5c2cd #1 SMP Thu May 17 22:28:35 UTC 2018 riscv64 GNU/Linux
#

At this point, you can run workloads as you’d like. To finish off this getting started guide, let’s poweroff the simulated system and see what the manager does. To do so, in the console of the simulated system, run poweroff -f:

Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login: root
Password:
# uname -a
Linux buildroot 4.15.0-rc6-31580-g9c3074b5c2cd #1 SMP Thu May 17 22:28:35 UTC 2018 riscv64 GNU/Linux
# poweroff -f

You should see output like the following from the simulation console:

# poweroff -f
[    3.748000] reboot: Power down
Power off
time elapsed: 360.5 s, simulation speed = 37.82 MHz
*** PASSED *** after 13634406804 cycles
Runs 13634406804 cycles
[PASS] FireSim Test
SEED: 1526711978
Script done, file is uartlog

[screen is terminating]

You’ll also notice that the manager polling loop exited! You’ll see output like this from the manager:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Instances
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Terminated: False
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simulated Switches
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Switch name: switch0 | Switch running: True
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simulated Nodes/Jobs
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base1 | Sim running: True
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base0 | Sim running: False
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base3 | Sim running: True
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base2 | Sim running: True
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base5 | Sim running: True
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base4 | Sim running: True
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base7 | Sim running: True
Instance IP:   172.30.2.178 | Job: br-base6 | Sim running: True
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/1 instances are still running.
7/8 simulations are still running.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Teardown required, manually tearing down...
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'kill_switch_wrapper'
[172.30.2.178] Killing switch simulation for switchslot: 0.
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'kill_simulation_wrapper'
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 0.
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 1.
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 2.
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 3.
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 4.
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 5.
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 6.
[172.30.2.178] Killing FPGA simulation for slot: 7.
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'screens'
Confirming exit...
[172.30.2.178] Executing task 'monitor_jobs_wrapper'
[172.30.2.178] Slot 0 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Slot 1 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Slot 2 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Slot 3 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Slot 4 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Slot 5 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Slot 6 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Slot 7 completed! copying results.
[172.30.2.178] Killing switch simulation for switchslot: 0.
FireSim Simulation Exited Successfully. See results in:
/home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/results-workload/2018-05-19--06-39-35-br-base/
The full log of this run is:
/home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/logs/2018-05-19--06-39-35-runworkload-4CDB78E3A4IA9IYQ.log

In the cluster case, you’ll notice that shutting down ONE simulator causes the whole simulation to be torn down – this is because we currently do not implement any kind of “disconnect” mechanism to remove one node from a globally-cycle-accurate simulation.

If you take a look at the workload output directory given in the manager output (in this case, /home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/results-workload/2018-05-19--06-39-35-br-base/), you’ll see the following:

centos@ip-172-30-2-111.us-west-2.compute.internal:~/firesim-new/deploy/results-workload/2018-05-19--06-39-35-br-base$ ls -la */*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base0/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base0/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 7476 May 19 06:45 br-base0/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base1/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base1/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 8157 May 19 06:45 br-base1/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base2/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base2/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 8157 May 19 06:45 br-base2/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base3/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base3/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 8157 May 19 06:45 br-base3/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base4/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base4/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 8157 May 19 06:45 br-base4/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base5/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base5/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 8157 May 19 06:45 br-base5/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base6/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base6/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 8157 May 19 06:45 br-base6/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  797 May 19 06:45 br-base7/memory_stats.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  125 May 19 06:45 br-base7/os-release
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos 8157 May 19 06:45 br-base7/uartlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 centos centos  153 May 19 06:45 switch0/switchlog

What are these files? They are specified to the manager in a configuration file (deploy/workloads/br-base-uniform.json) as files that we want automatically copied back to our manager after we run a simulation, which is useful for running benchmarks automatically. Note that there is a directory for each simulated node and each simulated switch in the cluster. The [DEPRECATED] Defining Custom Workloads section describes this process in detail.

For now, let’s wrap-up our guide by terminating the f1.16xlarge instance that we launched. To do so, run:

firesim terminaterunfarm -a ${CY_DIR}/sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_hwdb.yaml -r ${CY_DIR}/sims/firesim-staging/sample_config_build_recipes.yaml

Which should present you with the following:

FireSim Manager. Docs: http://docs.fires.im
Running: terminaterunfarm

IMPORTANT!: This will terminate the following instances:
f1.16xlarges
['i-09e5491cce4d5f92d']
f1.4xlarges
[]
m4.16xlarges
[]
f1.2xlarges
[]
Type yes, then press enter, to continue. Otherwise, the operation will be cancelled.

You must type yes then hit enter here to have your instances terminated. Once you do so, you will see:

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Type yes, then press enter, to continue. Otherwise, the operation will be cancelled.
yes
Instances terminated. Please confirm in your AWS Management Console.
The full log of this run is:
/home/centos/firesim-new/deploy/logs/2018-05-19--06-50-37-terminaterunfarm-3VF0Z2KCAKKDY0ZU.log

At this point, you should always confirm in your AWS management console that the instance is in the shutting-down or terminated states. You are ultimately responsible for ensuring that your instances are terminated appropriately.

Congratulations on running a cluster FireSim simulation! At this point, you can check-out some of the advanced features of FireSim in the sidebar to the left. Or, hit next to continue to a guide that shows you how to build your own custom FPGA images.