Benchmarking the computation and communication performance of the CM-5

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-69

  Dincer, Kivanc ^a   Bozkus, Zeki ^a   Ranka, Sanjay ^a   Fox, Geoffrey ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE; STANDARDS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

BENCHMARKING; COMMUNICATION LATENCY; COMMUNICATION START-UP TIME; COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING RATE; CONTROL NETWORK; DIAGNOSTIC NETWORK; GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION CODE; GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; POINT TO POINT COMMUNICATION; VECTORIZATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029733338     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199601)8:1<47::AID-CPE194>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. G.C. Fox, M. Johnson, G. Lyzenga, S. Otto, J. Salmon and D. Walker, Solving Problems on Concurrent Processors, Prentice Hall, 1988.
2. S. Ranka and S. Sahni, Hypercube Algorithms with Applications to Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (Bilkent University Lecture Series), Springer-Verlag, 1990.
3. L. Bomans and D. Roose, 'Benchmarking the IPSC/2 hypercube multiprocessor', Concurrency: Pract. Exp., 1, (1), 3-18 (1989).
4. Z. Bozkus, S. Ranka and G.G. Fox, 'Benchmarking the CM-5 multicomputer', in Proc. of 4th Symp. on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1992, pp. 100-107.
5. R.W. Hockney, 'Performance parameters and benchmarking of supercomputers', Parallel Comput., 17, (10-11), 1111-1130 (1991).
6. T.T. Kwan, B.K. Totty and D.A. Reed, 'Communication and computation performance of the CM-5', in Proc. of Supercomputing 1993, pp. 192-201.
7. C.E. Leiserson et al., 'The network architecture of the connection machine CM-5', in Proc. of Parallel Algorithms and Architectures Symposium, 1992, pp. 272-285.
8. M. Lin, R. Tsang, D.H.C. Du, A. E. Klietz and S. Saroff, 'Performance evaluation of the CM-5 interconnection network', in Proc. of Spring COMPCON 93, 1993.
9. R. Ponnusamy, R. Thakur, A. Choudhary, K. Velamakanni, Z. Bozkus and G.C. Fox, 'Experimental performance evaluation of the CM-5', J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 19, (3), 192-202 (1993).
10. D.H. Bailey, E. Barszcz, J.T. Barton, D.S. Browning, R.L. Carter, L. Dagum, R.A. Fatoohi, P.O. Frederickson, T.A. Lasinski, R.S. Schreiber, D.H. Simon, V. Venkatakrishnan and W. Weeratunga, 'The NAS parallel benchmarks', Int. J. Supercomput. Appl, 5, (3), 63-73 (1991).
11. M. Berry, D. Chen,P. Koss, D. Kuck, S. Lo, Y. Pang, L. Pointer, R. Roloff, A. Sameh, E. Clementi, S. Chin, D. Schneider, G. Fox, P. Messina, D. Walker, C. Hsiung, J. Schwarzmeier, K. Lue, S. Orszag, F. Seidl, O. Johnson, R. Goodrum and J. Martin, 'The PERFECT club benchmarks: Effective performance evaluation of supercomputers', Int. J. Supercomput. Appl., 3, (3), 5-40 (1989).
12. A.J.G. Hey, 'The GENESIS distributed-memory benchmarks', Parallel Comput., 17, (10-11), 1275-1283 (1991).
13. P. Messina, C. Baillie, E. Felten, P. Hipes, R. Williams, A. Alagar, A. Kamrath, R. Leary, W. Pfeiffer, J. Rogers and D. Walker, 'Benchmarking advanced architecture computers', Concurrency: Pract. Exp., 2, (3), 195-256 (1990).
14. Thinking Machines Corporation, CM Fortran Programming Guide, 1993.
15. Thinking Machines Corporation, CMMD Reference Manual, Version 3.0, 1993.
16. T. Von Eicken, D. Culler, S. Goldstein and K. Schauser, 'Active messages: A mechanism for integrated communication and computation', in Proc. of the 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1992, pp. 256-266.
17. Thinking Machines Corporation, Connection Machine CM-5 Technical Summary, 1993.
18. J. L. Hennesy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.
19. S. Swartz, Thinking machines corporation, Personal communications, 1992.
20. W. Wu, M.-Y.and Shu, 'Performance estimation of Gaussian-elimination on the Connection Machine', 1989 Int. Conf. on Parallel Processing, 1989, pp. 181-184.