Parallel Computer Architecture

966 APPENDIX Parallel Benchmark Suites

SPLASH suites plan to add new shared address space programs from a variety of

application domains in a new release called SPLASH-3.

A.4 NAS PARALLEL BENCHMARKS

The NAS benchmarks (Bailey et al. 1991, 1995) were developed by the Numerical

Aerodynamic Simulation group at the National Aeronautic and Space Administra-

tion (NASA). They are a set of eight computations—five kernels and three pseudo-

applications (not complete applications but more representative than the kernels of

the kinds of data structures, data movement, and computation required in real aero-

physics applications). The computations are eac ...