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Performance evaluation of scientific programs on advanced architecture computers

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C³P: Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications: Architecture, software, computer systems, and general issues - Volume 1

Pages 173 - 179

https://doi.org/10.1145/62297.62319

Published: 01 January 1988 Publication History

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Recently a number of advanced architecture machines have become commercially available. These new machines promise better cost-performance then traditional computers, and some of them have the potential of competing with current supercomputers, such as the Cray X/MP, in terms of maximum performance. This paper describes an on-going project to evaluate a broad range of advanced architecture computers using a number of complete scientific application programs. The computers to be evaluated include (1) distributed-memory machines such as the NCUBE, INTEL and Caltech/JPL hypercubes, and the MEIKO computing surface, (2) shared-memory, bus architecture machines such as the Sequent Balance and the Alliant, (3) very long instruction word machines such as the Multiflow Trace 7/200 computer, (4) “traditional” supercomputers such as the Cray X/MP and Cray-2, and (5) SIMD machines such as the Connection Machine. Currently 11 application codes from a number of scientific disciplines have been selected, although it is not intended to run all codes on all machines. Results are presented for two of the codes (QCD and missile tracking), and future work is proposed.

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C³P: Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications: Architecture, software, computer systems, and general issues - Volume 1

January 1988

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DOI:10.1145/62297

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Pancake CUtter S(1991)A bibliography of parallel debuggers, 1990 editionACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/122203.12220526:1(21-37)Online publication date: 1-Jan-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/122203.122205
Pfeiffer WAlagar AKamrath ALeary RRogers J(1990)Benchmarking and optimization of scientific codes on the CRAY X-MP, CRAY-2, and SCS-40 vector computersThe Journal of Supercomputing10.1007/BF001278774:2(131-152)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1990
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/BF00127877

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