[comp.benchmarks] SLALOM benchmarks

keeg6544@sa8.hgc.edu (michael keegan) (01/25/91)

I am looking for any sources of information concerning the SLALOM benchmark.
 
What recent papers/articles/reports have been published? 

Have the highly parallel machines(CM,NCUBE,etc.) been benchmarked yet and if
so what were the results?

I'd also like to get some information/comments/trivia about a comparison 
between the evaluation techniques used in the SLALOM and PERFECT benchmarks.


Thank-you in advance for any information



Mike Keegan              keeg6544@mstr.hgc.edu
                         

mpurtell@iastate.edu (Purtell Michael J) (01/25/91)

In article <1991Jan24.232704.28657@mstr.hgc.edu> keeg6544@sa8.hgc.edu.UUCP (michael keegan) writes:
>
>I am looking for any sources of information concerning the SLALOM benchmark.
> 
>What recent papers/articles/reports have been published? 

Article in the December issue of Supercomputing Review.

'The Design of a Scalable, Fixed-Time Computer Benchmark'  IS-5049/UC-32
by John Gustafson, Diane Rover, Stephen Elbert, and Michael Carter 
-- Ames Lab, Iowa State University

>Have the highly parallel machines(CM,NCUBE,etc.) been benchmarked yet and if
>so what were the results?

Yes, results can be found in both of the above.
For nCUBE 2, 20MHz using Fortran & tuned subroutine:
processors        Patches       Operations     MFlops
16                840           687.0M         11.5
64                1438          2.83G          47.2
256               2071          8.90G          153.0
For MasPar MP-1, 12.5MHz using C with plural variables (mpl):
1024              927           903.0M         15.9
2048              1055          1.30G          22.1
4096              1343          2.57G          43.7
8192              1663          4.73G          80.9
16384             2044          8.57G          144.0

>I'd also like to get some information/comments/trivia about a comparison 
>between the evaluation techniques used in the SLALOM and PERFECT benchmarks.

Tantalus.al.iastate.edu has the SLALOM sources in various languages and other
things including the latest reported results in 
pub/Slalom/Reports/CurrentReport

>Mike Keegan              keeg6544@mstr.hgc.edu

-- Michael Purtell     mpurtell@iastate.edu

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