Contrast with the CPU simulator SimpleScalar, whose source code is freely available to academic users. Google Scholar lists hundreds of citations for the origin

Contrast with the CPU simulator SimpleScalar, whose source code is freely available to academic users. Google Scholar lists hundreds of citations for the original tech report (you wouldn't do work based on someone else's simulation code without citing them, would you?), so it seems safe to say the work has done quite a bit for the author's professional status.