Ski itself needs about 15MB of disk space. Ski Interface Ski provides an informative, screen oriented machine state display and a friendly command interface. Programs may be loaded from disk in executable format. Programs may be run either from start to finish, or via single stepping over individual instructions in the program, with support for break points. Certain Linux and system calls are also made available to facilitate simulation of application programs.
Ski provides a screen oriented symbolic debugging capability.
Ski has been successfully used to develop and test a range of applications. A user executing NUE will be in an environment that largely behaves as if the user were running on an IA-64 system. A user running within NUE can compile, link and execute applications as if he or she were on an IA-64 system executing the Linux operating system. The C compiler included with NUE is not an optimizing compiler. However an optimizing compiler for IA-64 is available from SGI .