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Why use SPEC HPC2002?

April 26, 2017HPC2002 Spec

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Why use SPEC HPC2002?

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SPEC HPC2002 provides the most realistic and comprehensive benchmarks for measuring a computer system as a whole. The benchmark applications include large, realistic, computational applications. Among all the SPEC suites, HPC2002 has the most flexible runrules, allowing many code optimizations. This reflects computing practices on high-performance systems. It allows the benchmarker to achieve the best application performance. Other advantages to using SPEC HPC2002: • Benchmark programs are developed from actual end-user applications rather than synthetic benchmarks. • Multiple vendors use the suite and support it. • SPEC HPC2002 is portable to many platforms. • A wide range of results are available at http://www.spec.org/hpg/ • The benchmarks are required to be run and reported according to a set of rules to ensure comparability and repeatability. • HPC2002 allows comparison of OpenMP and MPI parallelization paradigms.