Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool
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1. among them This feature allows the exploration tool to run several instances of the simulation to speed up the exploration process e Additional and improved HW models New Additional models as a new more accurate model of an AMBA bus has been developed Furthermore component models as DMAs or memories have been improved Multicube SCoPE is distributed under the GPL license This report is structured as follows Section 2 presents the link to the website from which Multicube SCoPE can be downloaded Section 3 contains a summary of content of the website where the source code license and documentation can be found Section 4 presents a brief description of the main modification performed in the SCoPE tool Finally section 5 describes the features of the M3P plug in MULT I Page 6 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool II Link to the webpage of the prototype The public website of the Initial Prototype of the Open Source MULTICUBE Exploration Framework can be reached by following the appropriate link on the MULTICUBE official website under the open source tools page http www multicube eu open_source html Alternatively the initial prototype of the Open Source MULTICUBE SCoPE can be reached directly with the following link http www teisa unican es gim en scope multicube html The following figure is a snapshot of the home page installat2. certain restrictions V 3 Automatic System Configuration M3P is prepared to accept the XML System Configuration files specified in the Multicube D1 1 and D1 4 1 documents This capability allows M3P to consider automatically the different system configurations selected from the DSE tools to be analyzed e Exploration of System Components Configuration The tool allows defining unfixed parameters for the system components in the XML system description file This unfixed parameters can be set though the XML System Configuration file Then the best configuration for each component can be easily explored e Exploration of System Architectures Selecting the best system architecture is basic when developing an optimal design Selecting the type of components their number and their interconnections must be explored Using the capabilities for automatic platform generation of Multicube SCoPE it is possible to provide XML system descriptions with variable architectures Depending on the configuration files the number of components and their interconnections can be fixed for each simulation and then automatically explored e Exploration Through Global Variables New The refined tool allows also exploring internal details of the system component models not only those details described in the XML description files To allow these exploration the parameters must be declared as global variables in the code files and in the XML files Furthermore
3. project following the Multicube specifications The prototype tool is called Multicube SCoPE The current initial version of Multicube SCoPE is composed of SCoPE v1 1 4 and the plug in M3P v1 0 4 M3P is a SCoPE plug in providing the Multicube required new features Additional work has been performed in SCoPE in order to support these new features resulting in a new Multicube SCoPE Multicube SCoPE refined prototype provides new functionalities to make more flexible the use of the tool New component models as long as ways to introduce timing information of specific components obtained at other abstraction levels have been added to the tool It allows reducing the simulation times and accurately modeling the Multicube use cases This report contains e A summary of the structure and functionality of the refined version of Multicube SCoPE The current internet address of the web page from which the Multicube SCoPE can be downloaded A snapshot of the current Multicube SCoPE web site content Summary of improvements performed inside the tool Approved by the Project Coordinator Date February 2 2010 Page 2 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool Table of contents I Px ecuilive Suniinary CU do a E E EEE E E 4 II Link to the webpage of the prototype essesssseseeeessssssssseerssssssssseerrsssssssseeresssssssseereessssss 7 II NV SS CO eane E A
4. this technique allows exploring systems completely described in SystemC code Using SystemC codes based on if else structures several configuration options can be described in the code in order to be explored This feature allows exploring these option in the Multicube exploration flow e AMBA Bus Modeling New A new more accurate model of an AMBA bus has been developed The model use probabilistic estimations to evaluate blocks and collisions in the bus As a consequence the effects of modifying the access priorities for the bus masters can be explored MULT I Page 16 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool V 4 Automatic Metric reporting M3P is prepared to get the output metrics required for the system exploration and automatically provide them to the DSE tools M3P is capable of reading the XML Design Space Definition files specified within the Multicube project to know the metrics that must be reported Furthermore it automatically generates an XML output file with the metric results conforming to the Multicube specification These three capabilities guarantee the correct integration of Multicube SCoPE into a complete DSE framework if the DSE tools follow the Multicube specifications for tool integration It has been checked with modeFRONTIER and Multicube Explorer Page 17 of 18 VI Conclusions This document is the final report of the open s
5. variables in several component models Furthermore it allows instantiating the same component several times e SW HW communication through direct register memory addresses New In embedded systems HW SW communication is usually performed letting the SW to access the memory address where the peripheral registers are mapped These addresses are handled as pointers where data are read or stored Previous versions of the tool and in general SystemC based solutions does not support this solutions as it implies trying to access the peripherals of the host machine This refined version provides the features required to support direct pointer access to HW peripherals from SW component models e Time and power parameters in generic HW integration wrappers New Integration of HW components both generic and user defined ones is done in SCoPE by using generic Integration Wrappers The use of these generic wrappers allows the automatic system model creation Now the wrappers also provide facilities to include time and power information for each component in an standard way Thus components MULT I Page 5 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool performance effects can be easily integrated in the XML system description file This increases the accuracy of time and power metrics obtained with Multicube SCoPE e Integration of IMEC ARP library for reuse of timing information
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7. FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project MULTI OBJECTIVE DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION OF MULTI PROCESSOR SOC ARCHITECTURES FOR EMBEDDED MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS Deliverable D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool Revision 1 Delivery due date M24 December 2009 Actual submission date February 2 2010 Lead beneficiary UC Dissemination Level of Deliverable os A E PPU Restricted to other programme participants including the Commission Services o Restricted to a group specified by the consortium including the Commission Services lL Confidential only for members of the consortium including the Commission Services R Report G PJ o Prototype XT D Demonstrator S G o Ol ter S o Page 1 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool Public Keywords Prototype Open Source Performance Estimation Power Estimation Abstract This deliverable issued at M24 presents the results of the activity carried on from M13 to M24 in Task 2 1 Open source performance and power consumption estimation framework under the leadership of UC with contributions from ESTECO and reviewed by POLIMI and DS2 The main goal of this deliverable is the release of the refined version of the prototype tool for performance and power estimation developed in the
8. New The Atomium Record Playback library of IMEC has been integrated in Multicube SCoPE This new feature allows storing data from a reference simulation in order to be re used in other simulations During the exploration process multiple simulations of the same code are done considering different HW configurations As the code executed is the same performance information from one simulation can be reused in other simulations with compatible configurations Furthermore performance information obtained with other simulators at different abstraction levels can be used during the exploration process increasing the accuracy of the process e Automatic metric reporting The tool is capable of automatically reporting a list of system metrics following D1 1 The metrics the user wants to be reported must be indicated through a XML file at the beginning of the simulation When a simulation finishes a new XML file with the results is automatically created e Portability The tool is portable across a wide range of systems This goal is achieved by not sacrificing the efficiency of the overall exploration engine The standard ANSI C programming language is used for developing the open source framework The Standard Template Library as well as other open source libraries are used during the development process e Multiple executions The tool has been adapted to allow multiple concurrent executions in different directories with complete independence
9. Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool III 3 Installation page This page shows how to install the Multicube SCoPE tool This page provides the instructions to configure and install all the elements needed to successfully use the Multicube SCoPE tool The page starts by indicating all the system requirements that must be checked out before trying the main configuration and installation steps The GNU C C tool chain bison and flex analyzers and SystemC library are the system prerequisites After checking out that all the building tools and helpers are there the first step of the configuration and installation process is to build SCoPE It is a more or less trivial task after getting the proper sources that are available within the restricted area of the MULTICUBE project web site setting some shell system variables and executing the command make library More information can be found at the SCoPE web site http www teisa unican es gim en scope docu html Finally for the configuration and installation of the M3P plug in and MPEG4 codec example the auto installation script should be used Alternatively the installation page gives the steps to manually build the M3P library and MPEG4 example from the source code files that can be downloaded from the links provided in the source page ee Gee p home source 5 D developers Multicube SCoPE The installation In order to make Multicube SCoPE you have to check out the f
10. e simulation can be reused in other simulations with compatible configurations Furthermore performance information obtained with other simulators at different abstraction levels can be used during the exploration process increasing the accuracy of the process V 2 Automatic System Model Building In order to allow a complete exploration of the design space the M3P allows the complete building of the system model dynamically The system architecture and characteristics are MULT I Page 15 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool described in an XML file From this XML file M3P manages the SCoPE resources to build the system model To allow the exploration M3P support incomplete system descriptions Thus the system is built depending on the configuration options As a consequence the modeling technique is really flexible allowing not only to explore the optimal characteristics of the system components but also to analyze the whole system architecture e Dual input for System Descriptions New Electronic systems can be described using the XML file formats proposed The tool is then capable of automatically generating the system model required to perform the simulation Additionally system models can also be provided as SystemC code to be explored Mixed solutions based on XML system descriptions including subsystems provided as SystemC code are also possible under
11. imulation tool to communicate with a multicube Explorer performing the DSE using the XML interface defined within the MULTICUBE project to exchange system configuration and system metrics data Developed by GIM TEISA UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA Figure 1 Screenshot of the home page of the public website of Multicube SCoPE olay dka n FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool III Website content The website is composed of the following web pages The following sections describe in detail the content of each page with a small summary highlighted in italic Home Source Installation Developers Page 8 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool III 1 Home page This page is the welcome page for the Multicube SCoPE Open Source Tool It gives a brief overview of the tool goals and features and provides information on the people involved in the development SEN oo eo EE EE EE EE EE EE RE EEE EE ERS The home page introduces Multicube SCoPE tool This tool represents the extension of the previous tool SCoPE for Design Space Exploration Multicube SCoPE is a combination of the new SCoPE version v1 1 4 and the M3P plug in Then the web introduces the MP3 plug in and how it fits within the MULTICUBE exploration framework as the piece of software that enables the SCoPE system level simula
12. ion developers Multicube SCoPE Welcome to the Multicube SCoPE project website This project has been developed by GIM TEISA department at the University of Cantabria GIM TEISA UC and funded by the FP7 EU Project muLticuse This FP7 EU project aims at the development of a design exploration flow covering several abstraction levels based on the application of several multiobjective design space exploration techniques by means of a multi objective exploration engine and multilevel simulation tools to achieve automatic architectural hardware and run time software optimizations of MPSoCs Multicube SCoPE is an evolution of SCoPE oriented to Design Space Exploration DSE Multicube SCoPE is a fast system performance analyzer capable of supporting dynamically configurable XML system descriptions Multicube SCoPE automatically provides the system metrics required to drive the DSE process Multicube SCoPE is the result of combining two elements the new SCoPE version v1 1 4 and the M3P plugin for SCoPE Use Case and Simulator Provider rns RI XML Pie iE ee TS P p gt XML oOo gt System o P Config CSE Exploration Architect O E ume Human Machine Interface mo am XML e System Metrics 4 4 M3P is an open source plug in developed by the GIM TEISA UC to integrate SCoPE within the muLticuBe project design flow It is the extension of the SCoPE System level Simulator which allows the s
13. l is based on a previous tool called SCoPE SCoPE is a tool capable of simulating SystemC systems and providing some performance and power information However automatic system model generation and configuration or automatic metric reporting are completely not supported by previous SCoPE versions Furthermore additional features must be added to model the use cases proposed in Multicube The improvements performed internally in SCoPE to support the Multicube DSE flow are mainly related to automatically obtaining system metrics and simplifying system model construction Additional support for debugging purposes and more flexible ways to integrated user defined component models have been also included in the new version of the tool These improvements have been developed in order to support the Multicube use cases Memory space separation modeling for SW tasks and more powerful HW interfaces are some of these improvements The additional work performed in SCoPE in order to support these new features has been included in a new SCoPE version v1 1 4 M3P is the SCoPE plug in providing the additional facilities developed to support the Multicube required features This plug in provides the new services to support the Multicube requirements specified in D1 1 and D1 4 1 Furthermore the plug in allows using Multicube SCoPE as a tool instead of as a C library The new Multicube SCoPE framework presents the following features e Dual use of Multicube SC
14. ns the original SCoPE had to be improved This extension has been included in the new SCoPE version called v1 1 4 The main modifications performed in the SCoPE internal code are Simplification of the platform model building process Functions for connecting the system components create the memory maps and loading SW tasks has been simplified in order to allow dynamic automatic system model construction Extensions of the system components default management The HW system components that can be used to build the system inherit from a basic set of components To support all the metrics required these basic components has been extended The extended components support power features and are able of saving information about system communications and timing information This information can be used to obtain the system metrics Support for multi thread parallelism Previous versions of SCoPE allow modeling parallel execution of processes in multiprocessor systems However threads of the same process cannot be executed in parallel even when there are empty processors in the system The multimedia example requires this level of concurrency so the SCoPE internal mechanisms have been modified to support it SCoPE operation has been fixed to guarantee concurrent execution of different simulations in order to optimize the use of the host infrastructure Time and Power Parameters in Generic HW Integration Wrappers New In order
15. oPE as a tool or a library New The initial prototype version was developed as a library not as a complete tool As a consequence no executable program was created when installing the tool Each time an example was compiled the library had to be linked together with the example specific code in order to obtain an executable The new refined version provides an example independent Multicube SCoPE tool executable This reduces compilation times and providing a more flexible and user friendly solution Furthermore the possibility of using the code as a library is still maintained e Automatic system model generation The open source tool provides a XML input capable of creating the system models from XML descriptions This capability allows dynamically creating the system models and thus dynamically supporting any system modification that want to be explored by the Design Space Exploration DSE tools As a consequence DSE process can be completely performed without compiling the simulation model and thus reducing the exploration time MULT I Page 4 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool e Dual input for system descriptions New The refined tool has been prepared to accept system descriptions in two formats as a SystemC code or in XML files This extends the capabilities of the initial prototype where only XML description was valid To allow exploration of Sy
16. ollowing list of System Requirements pointing out the tools you need to do the job m GNU C C toolchain gcc g v4 x make Bison and flex tools as riquired by SCoPE zlib devel library Of course you ll have also to get a working installation of the SCoPE system level simulator and the SystemC 2 2 library which is used by SCoPE to specify the system to simulate You can download the latest stable release of SystemC library from the Open SystemC Initiative OSCI website The required SCoPE latest stable release which is version 1 1 0 February 2009 must be downloaded from SCoPE web page To get all the components working from scratch you must follow these steps 1 Build SystemC 2 Build SCoPE 3 Build M3P 4 Build and run the adapted IMEC example To do the first step you must read the SystemC documentation Basically you must download and uncompress the package and then you mus execute the sequence of commands configure make and make install For building SCoPE you must follow these instructions 1 Set the environment variables export SYSTEMC systemc installation path export SCOPE_HOME s scope installation path export SCOPE_XML_PLUGIN scope xml plugin installation path 2 Uncompress the package and enter the SCoPE directory 3 Execute make libraries Figure 4 Screenshot of the installation page of the public website of Multicube SCoPE Simulator Page 11 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE P
17. ontaining the use case specific SW and HW components Furthermore the prototype can be used as a library like previous versions e SW HW Communication Through Direct Register Memory Addresses New The refined version provides the features required to support HW SW communications through direct pointer access to HW peripheral registers A novel technology using exception management memory paging and code injection has been developed to support that feature e Memory Space Separation for System Component Models New The refined prototype tool is prepared to isolate the memory space of each component model The isolation provided avoids compiling and simulation errors due to name duplications when using the same names for functions or global variables in several component models Furthermore it allows instantiating several times the same components This is really useful when evaluating networked systems as the power line use case Using that feature nodes can be replicated without limitations e Integration of IMEC ARP Library for Reuse of Timing Information New The Atomium Record Playback library of IMEC has been integrated in Multicube SCoPE This new feature allows storing data from a reference simulation in order to be re used in other simulations During the exploration process multiple simulations of the same code are done considering different HW configurations As the code executed is the same performance information from on
18. ource performance and power estimation framework developed as a simulator within the MULTICUBE Design Space Exploration framework The simulation framework generated called Multicube SCoPE has been implemented on top of SystemC as an extension of a previous tool called SCoPE The new features included in the tool have been developed to accomplish the requirements of the design space exploration framework and the modeling requirements of the Multicube use cases supported As a result of this work a freely downloadable packet has been deployed in a web page developed specifically for the purpose and hosted in the web server of the University of Cantabria Additionally manuals and installation scripts has been at disposal in the web The tool has been checked with the Multimedia and the Power Line use cases of Multicube project Furthermore the tool has been integrated with both exploration tools integrated within the project M3Explorer and modeFRONTIER Additionally the tool has been prepared to accept performance information obtained from simulator at other levels abstraction in order to obtain more accurate simulation results This feature has been checked using the information obtained from the simulator developed in task 2 2 of the Multicube project VII Glossary Please refer to the MULTICUBE web page http www multicube eu and the user guide of Multicube SCoPE
19. ownloaded directly from this web page A link to the SCoPE website is provided together At the official SCoPE web page can also be found the documentation required to understand how to use the tool This documentation includes the user manual and the developer API reference manual Mhome soure installation developers Multicube SCoPE Download Multicube SCoPE combines the last version of SCoPE with the M3P plug in M3P the multicube SCoPE Plugin has been developed in GNU C C toolchain and is delivered as souce code under the GNU GPL license To download Multicube SCoPE please press this You can download a separate copy of the Multicube SCoPE pack components from the following links a M3P SCoPE XML Plug in V1 0 4 a M3P User Manual M3P Reference Manual m SCoPE v1 1 4 m Auto installation script f f pe gt i Figure 3 Screenshot of the download page of the public website of Multicube SCoPE Simulator The dowload page includes a link to an auto installation script which allows the user to automatically install and configure the M3P plug in and example together with the SCoPE tool thus avoiding the somewhat painful installation and configuration steps that must be followed if performing manually the whole installation process with each piece of software Latest stable release of M3P December 22th 2009 Release 1 0 4 MULT I Page 10 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2
20. roject D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool III 4 Team page This page shows some information about the development team SERIE rur AE KAE MAEDA PGAD AE KA MADADA DAIA AE KAE MADAPA PAEA AE KAE MADAPA HAEA KAE MADAPA AAEE KAE MADAPA RR ER MADAPA Real nue TR RRR TR RUE RA Re Rue Re RUE eR RRR KAENA AEE KAE NADAPA KAE KAEDAD PAA EAE KAEKA MAEDA EAE Ru AE RRR Re RETR Re RRR RR RETR eR KA MAEDA AEAEE RAE RRA RA RRR Re Re RRR RA RRR RAE RRR RA RAE KA RRA RAR RRR RAR RR RRR RA RMR RRR RRR RRR RRR ee This page shows some information about the development team and their relationship with the GIM TEISA department at the University of Cantabria and a mention to the funding from FP7 EU project p installation Multicube SCoPE Credits Multicube SCoPE and M3P have been developed for and funded by the muLticuse FP7 EU Project The developer team is formed by H ctor Posadas Gerardo de Miguel and Sara Real and coordinated by Eugenio Villar Bonet The group is part of the GIM TEISA group of the University of Cantabria Developed by GIM TEISA UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRI Figure 5 Screenshot of the credits page of the public website of Multicube SCoPE Simulator Page 12 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool IV Improvements to SCoPE internals Updated SCoPE is a SystemC library capable of performing timed simulations of embedded sys
21. stemC code based descriptions the new feature of system configuration through global variables has to be used In the Multicube project the SystemC code is used to model the power line use case while the XML files are used in the multimedia use case e Automatic system configuration The tool provides a second XML input to easily modify the system configuration in order to perform the DSE process e Exploration through global variables New The initial prototype tool allowed exploring systems by defining unfixed parameters in the XML system description file The refined tool allows also exploring internal details of the system component models These internal details are characteristics that are described in the model code but without visibility in the XML system description file To allow these exploration the parameters must be declared as global variables in the code files and in the XML files Furthermore this technique allows exploring system described completely in SystemC code not in XML files e Memory space separation for system component models New The refined prototype tool is prepared to isolate the memory space of each component model As the tool is developed as a host process running the SystemC kernel only one memory space is provided for the entire simulation Thus duplicating names of global elements result in simulation errors The isolation provided avoids conflicts when using the same names for functions or global
22. tems composed of SW components running over TLM HW platform models In addition SCoPE obtains some default metrics about system performance and power consumption of these SW components The goal of SCoPE is to provide the designer with a fast and sufficiently accurate emulation of the system behavior for functionality verification and constraints checking However Multicube project presents a different approach In the project the goal is to check the system performance when modifying the platform Multiple platform configurations for the same system are proposed and the performance estimations obtained are used to select the best possibilities This new approach implies two new challenges to be resolved Platform to be simulated cannot be a SystemC description A SystemC description is a fixed C code describing the system components and its interconnections That code is compiled together with the entire simulation executable and thus cannot be dynamically modified As a consequence modifying the system components as the type of bus or the number of processors require a complete recoding and compiling process When simulating several times the same system parts of the simulation can remain unchanged Reusing information the modeling of these parts can be improved optimizing simulation speed Furthermore the Multicube Use Cases require modeling elements not supported by the original SCoPE infrastructure To solve these limitatio
23. tion communicate with the design space simulation tool following the XML interface definition established by the MULTICUBE project to exchange system configuration and metrics results The following figure shows the MULTICUBE design space exploration and simulation framework highlighting the M3P and SCoPE pair as the core of this deliverable Wee Ca smi lalate Persi cik iir Fis i Design Space AHL Exploration Fae o Tool Figure 2 Screenshot of the home page of the public website of Multicube SCoPE Simulator In addition to the introductory information stated above the home page also emphasizes the funding and objectives of the FP7 EU MULTICUBE project to give a proper context and credits to the Multicube SCoPE tool introduction olay ahagd _ FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool III 2 Download page This page provides the link to download the elements that compose the initial prototype of the Multicube SCoPE open source performance and power estimation tool for DSE The source page briefly describes all the source code developed in this deliverable and gives the instructions to download the Multicube SCoPE components SCoPE and M3P A pack with all the Multicube SCoPE components can be downloaded from the web page Furthermore links for downloading the Multicube SCoPE components separately are also reported The M3P plug in sources and documentation can be d
24. to obtain accurate metrics of the entire system performance the integration wrappers have been MULT I Page 13 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool extended Now the wrappers also include facilities to consider time and power information for each component from the XML system descriptions Page 14 of 18 FP7 216693 MULTICUBE Project D2 1 2 Refined Performance and Power Estimation Prototype Tool V M3P characteristics Updated M3P is a plug in for SCoPE which adapts SCoPE to be used for a Design Space Exploration process Its initial version is centered on modifying the original SCoPE interfaces in order to comply with the Multicube requirements The initial M3P features are focused on automatic system model building automatic system configuration and automatic metric reporting V 1 Multicube SCoPE as a Modeling Tool The new extensions in M3P allow using Multicube SCoPE as a really powerful tool This extends the previous prototype capabilities The new prototype can be used both as a library or a tool including more powerful modeling features e Dual use of Multicube SCoPE as a Tool or a Library New When installing the refined version of M3P the program scope_tool x is generated This program integrates SCoPE and M3P To use it the XML files for system description and system configuration must be provided together with dynamic libraries c
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