November 15-20, 2015, Austin, Texas

Towards Comprehensive System Comparison: Using the SPEC HPG Benchmarks for Better Analysis, Evaluation, and Procurement of Next-Generation HPC Systems

Date: Sunday, November 15, 2015, 01:30 PM - 05:00 PM

Room: 13AB

Type: Tutorial

Description: The High Performance Group (HPG) of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a forum for discussing and developing benchmark methodologies for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. At the same time, the group released production quality benchmark suites like SPEC MPI2007, SPEC OMP2012, and SPEC ACCEL, that can evaluate all dimensions of parallelism. These benchmark suites are used in academia and industry to conduct research in HPC systems and facilitate procurement, testing, and tuning of HPC systems. In this tutorial we first provide an overview of the SPEC HPG benchmark suites and their philosophy.
Then we focus in-depth on how to use the benchmarks and how to interpret the results. Participants will learn how to install, compile and run the benchmark and how to submit results to the SPEC website for publication. We will analyze use cases of how the benchmarks can be used to access compiler performance, tune system parameters, evaluate application scalability, compare systems, and monitor power consumption.
During the hands-on sessions, participants can gain experience with the benchmarks on a standard HPC cluster and a hybrid Cray XE6/XK7 system. An SSH-capable laptop is required for the hands-on sessions.

Links: Official link from SC15

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