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A Novel Configurable Benchmarking System for Multi-core Architectures

Panda, Amayika

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2011, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Computer Engineering.

Multi-core architectures have been an important area of research in recent years. This has been driven by the constant need to improve the performance of computing systems. We have witnessed a shift in technology from the pure bus based architectures, to the more scalable Network on Chip (NoC) architectures. There have also been proposals for a hybrid approach, that derives concepts from both the bus based and NoC architectures. These systems are designed to exploit the benefits of parallelism and cope with an increased amount of multi-tasking. As these architectures continue to evolve, the need for a suitable benchmarking tool to measure, compare and evaluate them becomes paramount.

Many benchmark suites that are widely used in industry and academia are algorithm centric and usually favor one type of system over the other. They have not evolved much from their single core counterparts. Furthermore, micro-benchmarks emphasize on evaluating only a few metrics making it hard to evaluate a system in its completeness. Often, the system designers have little control over the capabilities of the benchmark. They use different benchmarks in order to evaluate systems against different metrics. In this work we propose a new benchmarking methodology that provides more control to the system designer. The benchmarks generated by our tool are configurable by a set of user defined parameters. The configurations can easily be altered to represent different real world application scenarios. They can also be reused and published as an open benchmarking standard. We also propose a second computational benchmark tool that can be used to design parallel computational workloads, with adequate interdependencies in a customizable environment.

Ranganadha Vemuri, PhD (Committee Chair)
Wen Ben Jone, PhD (Committee Member)
Carla Purdy, C, PhD (Committee Member)
123 p.

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  • Panda, A. (2011). A Novel Configurable Benchmarking System for Multi-core Architectures [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1300479983

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Panda, Amayika. A Novel Configurable Benchmarking System for Multi-core Architectures. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1300479983.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Panda, Amayika. "A Novel Configurable Benchmarking System for Multi-core Architectures." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1300479983

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)