Benchmark characterization

Author

Conte, Thomas M. ; Hwu, Wen-Mei W.

Author_Institution

Center for Reliable & High-Performance Comput., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

i

fYear

1991

fDate

8-11 Jan 1991

Firstpage

365

Abstract

The design of experimental systems usually employ some form of simulation. The inputs to the simulation are typically standard benchmarks. This paper presents a method for finding a cost-effective design for each benchmark. This method is called benchmark characterization. Benchmark characterization is possible in part due to the advent of high-performance architecture-independent compiler technology. To demonstrate the method, seven benchmarks are characterized. Five of the benchmarks are from the SPEC benchmark set (gcc, espresso, spice, li and matrix300) and two are popular synthetic benchmarks (dhrystone and whetstone). Benchmark characteristics are reported for the processor, memory system, and operating system

Keywords

buffer storage; performance evaluation; storage management; SPEC benchmark set; TLB; abstract performance; benchmark characterization; dhrystone; espresso; gcc; high-performance architecture-independent compiler technology; li; matrix300; memory system; operating system; spice; translation lookaside buffer requirements; whetstone; Books; Clocks; Computational modeling; Degradation; Horses; Operating systems; Runtime; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1991.183907

Filename

183907