Contemporary High Performance Computing

Chapter 2

HPC Challenge: Design, History, and Implementation Highlights

Jack Dongarra

University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Manchester, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Piotr Luszczek

University of Tennessee Knoxville

2.1    Introduction

2.2    The TOP500 Influence

2.3    Short History of the Benchmark

2.4    The Benchmark Tests’ Details

2.4.1    General Guidelines

2.4.2    HPL

2.4.2.1    Description

2.4.2.2    Data Size

2.4.2.3    Initialization

2.4.2.4    Timed Region

2.4.2.5    Duration

2.4.2.6    Verification

2.4.2.7    Performance

2.4.2.8    Alternative Implementations

2.4.3    RandomAccess

2.4.3.1    Description

2.4.3.2    Data Size

2.4.3.3    Initialization

2.4.3.4    Timed Region

2.4.3.5    Duration

2.4.3.6    Verification

2.4.3.7    Performance ...