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Journal Articles Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Year : 2017

CAP Bench: a benchmark suite for performance and energy evaluation of low-power many-core processors

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SUMMARY The constant need for faster and more energy-efficient processors has been stimulating the development of new architectures, such as low-power many-core architectures. Researchers aiming to study these architectures are challenged by peculiar characteristics of some components such as Networks-on-Chip and lack of specific tools to evaluate their performance. In this context, the goal of this paper is to present a benchmark suite to evaluate state-of-the-art low-power many-core architectures such as the Kalray MPPA-256 low-power processor, which features 256 compute cores in a single chip. The benchmark was designed and used to highlight important aspects and details that need to be considered when developing parallel applications for emerging low-power many-core architectures. As a result, this paper demonstrates that the benchmark offers a diverse suite of programs with regard to parallel patterns, job types, communication intensity and task load strategies, suitable for a broad understanding of performance and energy consumption of MPPA-256 and upcoming many-core architectures.
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hal-01330543 , version 1 (14-06-2016)

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Matheus A. Souza, Pedro Henrique Penna, Matheus M. Queiroz, Alyson Deives Pereira, Luís Fabricio Wanderley Góes, et al.. CAP Bench: a benchmark suite for performance and energy evaluation of low-power many-core processors. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2017, 29 (4), ⟨10.1002/cpe.3892⟩. ⟨hal-01330543⟩
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