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

fYear

1991

fDate

18-22 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

165

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing, 1991. Supercomputing '91. Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

0-89791-459-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1145/125826.125925

Filename

5348941