The PARSEC benchmark suite: Characterization and architectural implications (2008)
| Venue: | IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY |
| Citations: | 150 - 1 self |
BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{Bienia08theparsec,
author = {Christian Bienia and Sanjeev Kumar and Jaswinder Pal Singh and Kai Li},
title = {The PARSEC benchmark suite: Characterization and architectural implications},
institution = {IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY},
year = {2008}
}
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Abstract
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.







