Title :
MachSuite: Benchmarks for accelerator design and customized architectures
Author :
Reagen, Brandon ; Adolf, Robert ; Shao, Yakun Sophia ; Gu-Yeon Wei ; Brooks, David
Author_Institution :
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Recent high-level synthesis and accelerator-related architecture papers show a great disparity in workload selection. To improve standardization within the accelerator research community, we present MachSuite, a collection of 19 benchmarks for evaluating high-level synthesis tools and accelerator-centric architectures. MachSuite spans a broad application space, captures a variety of different program behaviors, and provides implementations tailored towards the needs of accelerator designers and researchers, including support for high-level synthesis. We illustrate these aspects by characterizing each benchmark along five different dimensions, highlighting trends and salient features.
Keywords :
benchmark testing; MachSuite; accelerator design; accelerator-centric architectures; accelerator-related architecture; benchmarks; customized architectures; high-level synthesis tools; program behaviors; workload selection; Acceleration; Algorithm design and analysis; Benchmark testing; Communities; Hardware; Kernel; Sparse matrices;
Conference_Titel :
Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Raleigh, NC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6452-9
DOI :
10.1109/IISWC.2014.6983050
