NAS Grid Benchmarks: a tool for Grid space exploration

Author

Frumkin, Michael ; Van der Wijngaart, Rob F.

Author_Institution

NASA Adv. Supercomput. Div., NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

322

Abstract

We present a benchmark suite for computational grids in this paper. It is based on the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) and is called the NAS Grid Benchmark (NGB). We present NGB as a data flow graph encapsulating an instance of an NPB code in each graph node, which communicates with other nodes by sending/receiving initialization data. These nodes may be mapped to the same or different Grid machines. Like NPB, NGB specifies several different classes (problem sizes). NGB also specifies the generic Grid services that are sufficient for running the suite. The implementor has the freedom to choose any Grid environment. We describe a reference implementation in Java and present some scenarios for using NGB

Keywords

Java; data flow graphs; distributed programming; software performance evaluation; Grid space exploration; Java; NAS Grid Benchmarks; NAS Parallel Benchmarks; benchmark suite; class specification; computational grids; data flow graph; graph nodes; initialization data; problem size specification; reference implementation; Concurrent computing; Flow graphs; Grid computing; Java; NASA; Parallel programming; Software measurement; Software systems; Space exploration; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 2001. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1296-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.2001.945199

Filename

945199