Re: SPEC CPU2006 announced

John.L.Henning@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The new CPU benchmark from the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation is announced

http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/

Readers of comp.arch and comp.benchmarks may
recall that I posted a call for benchmark candidates
a few years ago. Thank you to those who responded.
There were many contributions of real applications,
as well as a variety of freely-available programs,
that were included (see "credits.html" at the URL
above).

The new benchmark is a challenge to compilers: mostly
new code, derived from real applications, and over
3 million lines of code. Nevertheless, a wide variety of
compilers have been used to produce initial results.

- John Henning
Performance Engineer, Sun Microsystems
and
Vice-Chair/Secretary, SPEC CPU Subcommittee

Here are the benchmarks and programming languages used, from
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/readme1st.html#Q11

Q11. What source code is provided? What exactly makes up these suites?

CFP2006 has 17 benchmarks: 4 use C++, 3 use C, 6 use Fortran, and 4 use
a mixture of C and Fortran. The benchmarks are

410.bwaves Fortran Fluid Dynamics
416.gamess Fortran Quantum Chemistry
433.milc C Physics: Quantum Chromodynamics
434.zeusmp Fortran Physics/CFD
435.gromacs C/Fortran Biochemistry/Molecular Dynamics
436.cactusADM C/Fortran Physics/General Relativity
437.leslie3d Fortran Fluid Dynamics
444.namd C++ Biology/Molecular Dynamics
447.dealII C++ Finite Element Analysis
450.soplex C++ Linear Programming, Optimization
453.povray C++ Image Ray-tracing
454.calculix C/Fortran Structural Mechanics
459.GemsFDTD Fortran Computational Electromagnetics
465.tonto Fortran Quantum Chemistry
470.lbm C Fluid Dynamics
481.wrf C/Fortran Weather Prediction
482.sphinx3 C Speech recognition

CINT2006 and CFP2006 are based on compute-intensive applications
provided as source code. CINT2006 contains 12 benchmarks: 9 use C, and
3 use C++. The benchmarks are

400.perlbench C PERL Programming Language
401.bzip2 C Compression
403.gcc C C Compiler
429.mcf C Combinatorial Optimization
445.gobmk C Artificial Intelligence: go
456.hmmer C Search Gene Sequence
458.sjeng C Artificial Intelligence: chess
462.libquantum C Physics: Quantum Computing
464.h264ref C Video Compression
471.omnetpp C++ Discrete Event Simulation
473.astar C++ Path-finding Algorithms
483.xalancbmk C++ XML Processing

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