NAS Parallel Benchmarks
The NAS Parallel Benchmarks are a set of benchmarks targetting performance evaluation of highly parallel supercomputers. They were developed by the NASA Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Program (now the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division) based at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Motivation
The NAS Parallel Benchmarks were developed in the early 1990s to address the lack of suitable benchmarks for highly parallel machines. Traditional benckmarks such as the Livermore loops, the LINPACK benchmark and the original NAS Kernel Benchmark Program, being specialized for vector computers, suffered from inadequacies including parallelism-impeding tuning restrictions and insufficient problem sizes that rendered them inappropriate for highly parallel systems.[1]
References
- ^ D. Bailey, E. Barscz, J. Barton, D. Browning, R. Carter, L. Dagum, R. Fatoohi, S. Fineberg, P. Frederickson, T. Lasinski, R. Schreiber, H. Simon, V. Venkatakrishnan, S. Weeratunga, The NAS Parallel Benchmarks, NAS Technical Report RNR-94-007, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 1994.
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