SPEC’s High-Performance Group (SPEC/HPG) has released SPEC ACCEL V1.0, a new benchmark suite that measures the performance of systems using hardware accelerator devices and supporting software. SPEC ACCEL tests performance with a suite of computationally intensive parallel applications running under the OpenCL and OpenACC APIs (application programming interfaces). SPEC/HPG expects to extend the suite in the future to include applications running under the OpenMP API.
"We believe that this type of standardized benchmark based on real-world, computationally intensive parallel applications will be a valuable asset to a wide range of organizations in the high-performance computing community," says Kalyan Kumaran, SPEC/HPG chair.
SPEC ACCEL V1.0 comprises 19 application benchmarks running under OpenCL and 15 under OpenACC. The OpenCL suite is derived from the well-respected Parboil benchmark from the IMPACT Research Group of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Rodinia benchmark from the University of Virginia. The OpenACC suite includes tests from NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB), SPEC OMP2012, and others derived from high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
Read more: www.spec.org/accel