Table 1 provides a list of current implementations for each of the three SSCA benchmarks. The benchmarks have been implemented in several languages, with contributions from industry, academia, supercomputing centers and national labs.
Kepner and Meuse from MIT Lincoln Labs maintain the reference executable implementations inMatlab for the three SSCAs. Bader and Madduri have developed a parallel implementation of SSCA #2 in C using the POSIX thread library for commodity symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs). They evaluate the data layout choices and algorithmic design issues for each kernel, and also present execution time and benchmark validation results.17 Gilbert, Reinhardt and Shah describe a StarP implementation of SSCA #2 in [18]. The various SSCA implementations have also been compared for productivity studies.
Benchmark Language | Bioinformatics (SSCA#1) | Graph Theory (SSCA#2) | Sensor and IO (SSCA#3) |
Written spec | 0.5 (GT/LL) | 2.0 (GT/LL) | 0.8 (LL) |
C | 0.5k1† (PSC) | 2.0 (GT) | 0.5 (ISI) |
C & MPI | 0.5k1† (PSC) | ||
C & MPI & OpenMP | |||
UPC | 0.5k1† (UNM/GT/PSC) | 1.0* (UNM/GT) | |
C & Pthreads | 0.5k1* (UNM/GT) | 2.0* (UNM/GT) | |
C++ | 1.0 (LL/MITRE/CS) | ||
Fortran | 2.0† (Sun) | 0.5io (LM) | Fortran & OpenMP | 2.0† (Sun) |
Matlab | 0.5 (LL) | 2.0 (LL) | 0.8 (LL) |
MatlabMPI | 1.0 (LL) | 0.8 (LL) | |
Matlab & mexGA | 0.5* (OSC) | 1.0* (OSC) | 0.8* (LL) |
StarP | 2.0* (UCSB) | 0.5 (UCSB) | |
pMatlab | 1.0 (LL) | 1.0 (LL) | |
Octave | 0.8* (OSC) | 1.0* (UW) | 0.8 (OSC) |
Octave & mexGA | 0.8* (OSC) | 1.0* (OSC) | 0.5* (OSC) |
Python | Python & MPI | ||
Java | 0.5k1† (PSC) | 1.0int† (GT) | |
Chapel | 0.5 (Cray) | 1.0int† (Cray) | |
X10 | 0.5k1† (UNM/GT/PSC) | 1.0* (UNM/GT/IBM) | |
Fortress | |||
CS: CodeSourcery, LLC GT: Georgia Institute of Technology ISI: Univ. of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute LL: MIT Lincoln Labs LM: Lockheed Matrin MITRE: MITRE Corporation OSC: Ohio Supercomputer Center PSC: Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center UCSB: Univ. of California, Santa Barbara UNM: Univ. of New Mexico UTK: Univ. of Tennessee UW: University of Wisconsin |
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