Setup¶
Virtual Machine & Linux Environment Configuration
This section documents the system environment used for all experiments in Phase I, ensuring reproducibility and controlled execution.
System Environment¶
All experiments were conducted inside a Linux virtual machine to maintain consistency and eliminate host-system variability.
The VM was created using UTM on macOS, configured with Apple’s native virtualization framework.
Virtual Machine Creation¶
Creating a VM with UTM
Virtualize
Operating System¶
- Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- Architecture: ARM64 (aarch64)
Linux
Resource Allocation¶
The VM was configured with:
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 CPU cores
- Adequate storage capacity for OS, source code, and output files
Memory and Cores
Storage
Storage Configuration
System Verification¶
System verification commands were executed to confirm environment consistency:
uname -a
free -h
lsb_release -a
These confirmed:
- CPU architecture: aarch64
- Memory allocation
- Core count
- Ubuntu version
System Specifications
Software Tools¶
The following tools were installed inside Ubuntu:
Installation Command¶
sudo apt install build-essential
Compilation Command¶
gcc -Wall matrix_fork.c -o matrix_fork
The -Wall flag enables compiler warnings to promote safer and cleaner code.
Apple Virtualization
Ubuntu
This setup ensures that all experiments were conducted in a controlled, reproducible Linux environment suitable for evaluating process-based parallel performance.