Title :
The NAS parallel benchmarks summary and preliminary results
Author :
Bailey, D.H. ; Barszcz, E. ; Barton, J.T. ; Browning, D.S. ; Carter, R.L. ; Dagum, L. ; Fatoohi, R.A. ; Frederickson, P.O. ; Lasinski, T.A. ; Schreiber, R.S. ; Simon, H.D. ; Venkatakrishnan, V. ; Weeratunga, S.K.
Author_Institution :
Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Syst. Div., NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Abstract :
A new set of benchmarks has been developed for the performance evaluation of highly parallel supercomputers. These benchmarks consist of five "parallel kernel" benchmarks and three "simulated application" benchmarks. Together they mimic the computation and data movement characteristics of large scale computational fluid dynamics applications. The principal distinguishing feature of these benchmarks is their "pencil and paper" specification-all details of these benchmarks are specified only algorithmically. In this way many of the difficulties associated with conventional benchmarking approaches on highly parallel systems are avoided.
Keywords :
benchmark testing; computational fluid dynamics; operating system kernels; parallel machines; performance evaluation; NAS parallel benchmark; computational fluid dynamics application; numerical aerodynamic simulation; parallel kernel benchmark; parallel supercomputer; pencil and paper specification; performance evaluation; simulated application benchmark; Aerodynamics; Computational modeling; Computer applications; Concurrent computing; Kernel; Large-scale systems; NASA; Numerical simulation; Postal services; Tellurium;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing, 1991. Supercomputing '91. Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
0-89791-459-7
DOI :
10.1145/125826.125925
