14th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP'06)
Comparing Commodity SMP System Software with a Matrix Multiplication Benchmark
Montb?liard-Sochaux, France
February 15-February 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2513-X
Commodity symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), though originally intended for transaction processing, because of their availability, are now used for numerical analysis applications in SMP clusters. Dense matrix multiplication is a suitable benchmark as it exposes memory access issues. Various block-based algorithms are compared across Windows 2000 and Linux variants with gcc compiler versions. Differences in compilers may explain differential performance between algorithms.
Citation:
Georgios Tsilikas, Martin Fleury, "Comparing Commodity SMP System Software with a Matrix Multiplication Benchmark," pdp, pp.149-152, 14th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP'06), 2006