System utilization benchmark on the Cray T3E and IBM SP

Conference · Mon Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:785227

Wong, Adrian; Oliker, Leonid; Kramer, William; Kaltz, Teresa; Bailey, David

Obtaining maximum utilization of parallel systems continues to be an active area of research and development. This article outlines a new benchmark, called the Effective System Performance (ESP) test, designed to provide a utilization metric that is transferable between systems and illuminate the effects of various scheduling parameters. Results with discussion are presented for the Cray T3E and IBM SP systems together with insights obtained from simulation.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 785227
• Report Number(s): LBNL-45141; R&D Project: K19010; TRN: US200212%%169
• Resource Relation: Conference: International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing. IPDPS 2000 Workshop, Cancun (MX), 04/29/2000--05/07/2000; Other Information: PBD: 28 Feb 2000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
BENCHMARKS
METRICS
PARALLEL PROCESSING
PERFORMANCE
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
PERFORMANCE TESTING
TASK SCHEDULING
CRAY COMPUTERS
IBM COMPUTERS