What applications are included with SPEC HPC2002?
The SPEC HPC2002 suite includes three application areas: seismic processing (SPECseis), computational chemistry (SPECchem), and climate modeling (SPECenv). SPECseis contains Seismic, an application developed at Atlantic Richfield Corp. (ARCO). Seismic performs time and depth migrations used to locate gas and oil deposits. SPECchem contains GAMESS (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System), an improved version of programs that originated in the Department of Energy’s National Resource for Computations in Chemistry. Many of the functions found in GAMESS are duplicated in commercial packages used in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries for drug design and bonding analysis. SPECenv is WRF, a weather forecast application. More detailed descriptions of the applications (with reference to papers, web sites, etc.) can be found in the individual benchmark directories in the SPEC benchmark distribution.
