Title :
Application performance on the MIT Alewife machine
Author :
Chong, Frederic T. ; Lim, Beng-Hong ; Bianchini, Ricardo ; Kubiatowicz, John ; Agarwal, Anant
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
fDate :
12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The architecture of parallel machines influences the structure of parallel programs, and vice versa. An important result of research on shared memory applications is two sets of benchmarks, Splash and NAS. We explore the performance of 14 applications on the Alewife machine, introducing two new performance metrics: weighted cache-hit ratio and weighted computation granularity
Keywords :
parallel architectures; parallel machines; parallel programming; shared memory systems; software metrics; software performance evaluation; MIT Alewife machine; NAS; Splash; application performance; benchmarks; parallel architecture; parallel machines; parallel programs; performance metrics; research; shared memory applications; weighted cache-hit ratio; weighted computation granularity; Application software; Character generation; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Delay; Hardware; Memory architecture; Parallel machines; Symbiosis; Typhoons;
