Download Benchmarks

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
• Parsec 2.1

Usage example:

• wget http://snipersim.org/packages/sniper-benchmarks.tbz
• tar xjf sniper-benchmarks.tbz
• cd benchmarks
• export GRAPHITE_ROOT=/path/to/sniper
• export BENCHMARKS_ROOT=$(pwd)
• make
• ./run-sniper -p splash2-fft -i test -n 4 -c gainestown