Development of the TI-01 Application Benchmark
Abstract
This report documents the design, construction, and validation of the Technology Insertion 2001 application benchmark test package for the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program Office (HPCMPO). This test suite contained 12 application programs chosen to be representative of the DoD's HPC workload. The report justifies this claim of representativeness. On a given HPC system, each application program was typically tested using at least two sets of input data, and each program/input data test case was always tested at multiple numbers of processors. These tests were done in dedicated mode with no other applications on the system, so as to obtain a presumably "best possible" performance. This collection of tests was repeated on five different HPC systems: a Cray T3E, an IBM POWEIU-based SP, an IBM POWER3-based SP, an 501 Origin 2000, and an SOl Origin 3800. Additionally, two throughput tests constructed to represent HPCMPO workloads were conducted. Again, the methodology used to obtain representativeness is described.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA427046
Entities
People
- Daniel Q. Duffy
- Jeffrey L. Hensley
- Mark R. Fahey
- Rebecca A. Fahey
- Robert W. Alter
Organizations
- Engineer Research and Development Center