Abstract
Performance characteristics of application programs onlarge-scale systems are often significantly different from those on smaller systems. In this paper, we discuss such characteristics of the benchmark suites maintained by SPEC’s High-Performance Group (HPG). The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s (SPEC) High-Performance Group (HPG) has developed a set of benchmarks for measuring performance of large-scale systems using both OpenMP and MPI parallel programming paradigms. Currently, SPEC HPG has two lines of benchmark suites: SPEC OMP and SPEC HPC2002. SPEC OMP uses the OpenMP API and includes benchmark suites intended for measuring performance of modern shared memory parallel systems. SPEC HPC2002 is based on both OpenMP and MPI, and thus it is suitable for distributed memory systems, shared memory systems, and hybrid systems. SPEC HPC2002 contains benchmarks from three popular application areas, Chemistry, Seismic, and Weather Forecasting. Each of the three benchmarks in HPC2002 has small and medium data sets in order to satisfy the need for benchmarking a wide range of high-performance systems. We present our experiences regarding the scalability of the benchmark suites. We also analyze published results of these benchmark suites based on application program behavior and systems’ architectural features.
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