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== Summary ==

Running ALMOS on the TSAR virtual prototype requires the installation of several open-source technologies like a GCC cross-compiler for Mips (el), [http://www.soclib.fr SocLib] virtual prototyping library, [https://www-asim.lip6.fr/trac/tsar TSAR] related components, and [https://www-asim.lip6.fr/trac/systemcass SystemCASS]. To simplify the task of building and configuring a correct development environment, ALMOS comes with a stand-alone and ready-to-use distribution. 

Mainly, this distribution enables you to:
 * Port your own applications and libraries to ALMOS.
 * Run these applications on TSAR using several configurations ranging from 4 to 1024 cores.
 * Analyse the performance of your applications or the totality of the software-stack on a large-scale many-core.

Upon your needs you can also use this distribution to:
 * Validate and evaluate any hardware evolution/development in a TSAR based architectures.
 * Validate and evaluate any kernel new features or updates.
 * Experiment and develop new parallel programming libraries and run-times for a large-scale single-chip many-core.   


 
== Getting Started == 

== Setup ==

Download the latest stable distribution from this [htdocs:almos-tsar-mipsel.tbz2 link]. Decompress the .tbz2 file:

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Now you have a sub-directory named ''almos-tsar-mipsel'' ... Congratulation you are done !

== Run ALMOS on TSAR ==
== Your first application ==