Why use SPEC MPI2007?
SPEC MPI2007 provides a comparative measure of MPI-parallel, floating point, compute intensive performance, across the widest practical range of cluster and SMP hardware. If this matches with the type of workloads you are interested in, SPEC MPI2007 provides a good reference point. Other advantages to using SPEC MPI2007 include: • The benchmark programs are developed from native MPI-parallel end-user applications, as opposed to being synthetic benchmarks or even parallelized versions of sequential benchmarks. • Multiple vendors use the suite and support it. • SPEC MPI2007 is highly portable. • A wide range of results are available at http://www.spec.org • The benchmarks are required to be run and reported according to a set of rules to ensure comparability and repeatability.
SPEC MPI2007 provides a comparative measure of MPI-parallel, floating point, compute intensive performance, across the widest practical range of cluster and SMP hardware. If this matches with the type of workloads you are interested in, SPEC MPI2007 provides a good reference point. Other advantages to using SPEC MPI2007 include: • The benchmark programs are developed from native MPI-parallel end-user applications, as opposed to being synthetic benchmarks or even parallelized versions of sequential benchmarks. • Multiple vendors use the suite and support it. • SPEC MPI2007 is highly portable. • A wide range of results are available at http://www.spec.org • The benchmarks are required to be run and reported according to a set of rules to ensure comparability and repeatability.
