| Abstract |
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| Structural performance analysis of the NAS parallel benchmarks is usedto time code sections and specific classes of activity, such ascommunication or data movements. This technique is called {\emwhite-box benchmarking} because, similarly to white-boxmethodologies used in program testing, the programs are not treated asblack boxes. The timing methodology is portable, which isindispensable to make comparative benchmarking across differentcomputer systems. A combination of conditional compilation and codeinstrumentation is used to measure execution time related to differentaspects of application performance. This benchmarking methodology isproposed to help understand parallel application behaviour ondistributed-memory parallel platforms. |
| Contact |
| Emilio Hernandez Departamento de Computacin ,Universidad Simn Bolvar,Apartado 89000,Caracas, Venezuela, emilio@ldc.usb.ve |