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Performance Characterization of Multiprocessors and Accelerators Using Micro-Benchmarks

Authors:
Javed Razzaq
Rudolf Berrendorf
Jan Philipp Ecker
Simon Eric Scholl
Florian Manuss

Keywords: Performance; micro-benchmarks; server processors; Intel Xeon Phi; Nvidia graphic processors; thread mapping

Abstract:
In this paper, a set of micro-benchmarks is proposed to determine basic performance parameters of single-node mainstream hardware architectures for High Performance Computing. Performance parameters of recent processors, including those of accelerators, are determined. The investigated systems are Intel server processor architectures and the two accelerator lines Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia graphic processors. Additionally, the performance impact of thread mapping on multiprocessors and Intel Xeon Phi is shown. The results show similarities for some parameters between all architectures, but significant differences for others.

Pages: 77 to 90

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-261x