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We present a new benchmark suite for parallel computers. SPEComp targets mid-size parallel servers. It includes a number of science/engineering and data processing applications. Parallelism is expressed in the OpenMP API. The suite includes two data sets, Medium and Large, of approximately 1.6 and 4 GB in size. Our overview also describes the organization developing SPEComp, issues in creating OpenMP parallel benchmarks, the benchmarking methodology underlying SPEComp, and basic performance characteristics.
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Aslot, V., Domeika, M., Eigenmann, R., Gaertner, G., Jones, W.B., Parady, B. (2001). SPEComp: A New Benchmark Suite for Measuring Parallel Computer Performance. In: Eigenmann, R., Voss, M.J. (eds) OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming. WOMPAT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44587-0_1
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