A Microbenchmark Suite for OpenMP Tasks

  • J. Mark Bull
  • Fiona Reid
  • Nicola McDonnell
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7312)

Abstract

We present a set of extensions to an existing microbenchmark suite for OpenMP. The new benchmarks measure the overhead of the task construct introduced in the OpenMP 3.0 standard, and associated task synchronisation constructs. We present the results from a variety of compilers and hardware platforms, which demonstrate some significant differences in performance between different OpenMP implementations.

Keywords

Hardware Platform Delay Function Master Thread OpenMP Thread OpenMP Implementation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • J. Mark Bull
    • 1
  • Fiona Reid
    • 1
  • Nicola McDonnell
    • 2
  1. 1.EPCC, The King’s BuildingsThe University of EdinburghEdinburghScotland, U.K.
  2. 2.ICHEC, Trinity Technology and Enterprise CampusDublinIreland

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