The PARSEC benchmark suite: characterization and architectural implications
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques, Seite 72--81. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)DOI: 10.1145/1454115.1454128
Zusammenfassung
This paper presents and characterizes the Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC), a benchmark suite for studies of Chip-Multiprocessors (CMPs). Previous available benchmarks for multiprocessors have focused on high-performance computing applications and used a limited number of synchronization methods. PARSEC includes emerging applications in recognition, mining and synthesis (RMS) as well as systems applications which mimic large-scale multithreaded commercial programs. Our characterization shows that the benchmark suite covers a wide spectrum of working sets, locality, data sharing, synchronization and off-chip traffic. The benchmark suite has been made available to the public.
