Steven Cameron Woo, Moriyoshi Ohara, Evan Torrie, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Anoop Gupta: The SPLASH-2 Programs: Characterization and Methodological Considerations. ISCA 1995: 24-36. ACM DL Link |
computational load balance
communication to computation ratio and traffic needs
important working set sizes
issues related to spatial locality
how these scale with problem size
number of processors
benchmark intro paper :
characterize the programs : basic properties, architectural interactions
user help : what veal params to choose