TAP List Documentation

Rank Lists of Top Application Performers
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  • TAP HPC2002 Description

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  • TAP OMP Description

 
What's TAP?

    TAP Lists are new high-performance computer rank lists that use real, industrial grade applications to measure performance. Currently TAP contains 3 ranking lists, TAP HPC96, TAP HPC2002 and TAP OMPM2001. They are based on SPEC HPC96, SPEC HPC2002 and SPEC OMP benchmark suites, respectively.

    For TAP HPC lists, we use performance results from the SPEC HPC benchmark suites, which represent large-scale computing needs in industry. SPEC HPC96 is a benchmark suite that measures the performance of high-end computing systems running industrial-style applications. The benchmarks in the HPC2002 suite are derived from real HPC applications and application practices, and measure the overall performance of high-end computer systems, including the computer's processors (CPUs), the interconnection system (shared or distributed memory), the compilers, the MPI and/or OpenMP parallel library implementation, and the input/output system. SPEC HPC2002 was newly released on Jan. 9 2003.

    Another list, TAP OMPM2001, has been added in November 2001. It measures computer performance based on SPEC's OMPM2001 benchmark. TAP OMP is most suitable for measuring shared-memory system performance.

    TAP is an effort to encourage the use of real applications for measuring the performance of high-performance computer (HPC) systems. The need for evaluating computer systems with realistic benchmarks is evident and widely acknowledged. However, so far there has not been an effort to demonstrate HPC system performance based on such metrics. The TAP lists address this need.

 
 
This project is sponsored in part by Purdue University's Computing Research Institute.
Last Updated On: 01/16/2003