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

Volume

29

Issue

12

fYear

1996

fDate

12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

64

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.546610

Filename

546610