Download Benchmarks

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A package with benchmarks is available at sniper-benchmarks.tbz. These have been slightly adapted to:

  • Build using the compilation switches that Sniper requires (e.g. -mno-sse4), see Porting applications to Sniper.
  • Mark the start and end of the parallel section (region of interest, ROI), see Simulator hooks.
  • Runner scripts to automatically run a benchmark in Sniper with the right command-line options for a predefined collection of input sets

Options for run-sniper:

  • Make sure to define the GRAPHITE_ROOT (pointing to Sniper) and BENCHMARKS_ROOT (pointing to the location where sniper-benchmarks.tbz is installed)
  • Run run-sniper without any commandline options to see a list of supported benchmarks
  • -p suitename-benchmarkname (required): suite (splash2) and name (fft, barnes, ...) of the benchmark
  • -n numcores (required): number of threads to run
  • -i inputsize (required): input set name. Usually test, small and large are available, as defined in our IISWC 2011 paper.
  • -c, -g, -s: passed to sniper/run-sniper unmodified

This distribution currently contains the following benchmark suites:

  • SPLASH-2

Usage example: