Overview

This section is intended to give a quick overview of how 0sim and the associated tools are intended to be used. Feel free to skip to Getting Started if you already know.

The suggested workflow (the one we use) is to dedicate one machine to 0sim to run experiments. One would then drive this machine remotely from some local machine, such as a desktop workstation, via SSH.

This repository contains a few tools we have developed and found useful in addition to 0sim. The paper (linked above mostly covers 0sim), but we rarely interact directly with 0sim. Instead, we drive it using the tools in this repository: runner and jobserver.

• runner: executes commands on the remote machine in 0sim. runner takes care of reproducible setup and execution. It also saves a ton of time. In general, runner has two types of subcommands:

  • setup* commands do setup/configuration work.
  • exp* command runs experiments.

• jobserver: makes it easy to run a large number of experiments on one or more machines with possibly different parameters, collecting the results and logs in one place on the local machine for processing. The jobserver is more like a bookkeeping program that just forks off instances of runner to do the real work.