SPEC High Performance Group Publications

Topics:

• General
• ACCEL
• MPI2007
• OMP2012

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General

• Tutorial at SC19, Nov 2019, Denver, CO, United States:
  "Using the SPEC HPG Benchmarks for Better Analysis and Evaluation of Current and Future HPC Systems
  Robert Henschel, Junjie Li, Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Mayara Gimenes, Sandra Wienke
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• Presentation at ZKI AK Supercomputing, Sep 2018, Freiburg, Germany:
  "An Introduction to the SPEC High Performance Group and their HPC Benchmark Suites
  Guido Juckeland
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• Presentation at HPC Advisory Council Meeting 2018, Lugano, Switzerland:
  "An Introduction to the SPEC High Performance Group and their HPC Benchmark Suites"
  Robert Henschel
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• Tutorial at ISC18, at Frankfurt, Germany:
  "Using the SPEC HPG Benchmarks for Better Analysis and Evaluation of Current and Future HPC Systems"
  Robert Henschel, Sandra Wienke, Bo Wang, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Guido Juckeland, Junjie Li, Verónica G. Vergara Larrea
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• Tutorials at SC15 at Austin, United States:
  "Towards Comprehensive System Comparison: Using the SPEC HPG Benchmarks for Better Analysis, Evaluation, and Procurement of Next-Generation HPC Systems"
  Guido Juckeland, Ke Wang, Sandra Wienke, Oscar Hernandez, Robert Henschel, Kalyan Kumar, Wen-Mei Hwu, Mat Colgrove, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Kevin Skadron
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• Presentation at ScicomP 2015, York, United Kingdom:
  "An Introduction to the SPEC High Performance Group and Their Benchmark Suites"
  Robert Henschel, Huian Li
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ACCEL

• SPEC ACCEL: A Standard Application Suite for Measuring Hardware Accelerator Performance.
  Guido Juckeland, William Brantley, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Barbara Chapman, Shuai Che, Mathew Colgrove, Huiyu Feng, Alexander Grund, Robert Henschel, Wen-Mei W. Hwu, Huian Li, Matthias S. Müller, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Maxim Perminov, Pavel Shelepugin, Kevin Skadron, John Stratton, Alexey Titov, Ke Wang, Matthijs van Waveren, Brian Whitney, Sandra Wienke, Rengan Xu, Kalyan Kumaran
  In: Jarvis S., Wright S., Hammond S. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation. PMBS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8966. Springer, Cham
  
  
• Performance portable applications for hardware accelerators: lessons learned from SPEC ACCEL.
  Juckeland, G., Grund, A., & Nagel, W. E. (2015, May).
  In Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop (IPDPSW), 2015 IEEE International (pp. 689-698). IEEE.
  
  
• OpenACC programs examined: a performance analysis approach.
  Dietrich, R., Juckeland, G., & Wolfe, M. (2015, September).
  In Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2015 44th International Conference on (pp. 310-319). IEEE.
  
  
• From describing to prescribing parallelism: Translating the SPEC ACCEL OpenACC suite to OpenMP target directives.
  Guido Juckeland, Oscar Hernandez, Arpith C. Jacob, Daniel Neilson, Verónica G. Vergara Larrea, Sandra Wienke, Alexander Bobyr, William C. Brantley, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Mathew Colgrove, Alexander Grund, Robert Henschel, Wayne Joubert, Matthias S. Müller, Dave Raddatz, Pavel Shelepugin, Brian Whitney, Bo Wang, Kalyan Kumaran (2016, June).
  In International Conference on High Performance Computing (pp. 470-488). Springer, Cham
  
  

MPI2007

• SPEC MPI2007 - an application benchmark suite for parallel systems using MPI.
  Matthias S. Müller, Matthijs van Waveren, Ron Lieberman, Brian Whitney, Hideki Saito, Kalyan Kumaran, John Baron, William C. Brantley, Chris Parrott, Tom Elken, Huiyu Feng, Carl Ponder.
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Vol. 22, Issue 2 (2010): 191-205.
  
  
• SCALASCA Parallel Performance Analyses of SPEC MPI2007 Applications.
  Zoltán Szebenyi, Brian J. N. Wylie, and Felix Wolf.
  In Proc. of the 1st SPEC Int'l Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW, Darmstadt, Germany), volume 5119 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 99-123, Springer, June 2008
  
  

OMP2012

• SPEC OMP2012 — An Application Benchmark Suite for Parallel Systems Using OpenMP
  Matthias S. Müller, John Baron, William C. Brantley, Huiyu Feng, Daniel Hackenberg, Robert Henschel, Gabriele Jost, Daniel Molka, Chris Parrott and Joe Robichaux, et al.
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7312, OpenMP in a Heterogeneous World, Pages 223-236