J. Gustafson
Purpose-Based Benchmarks
to appear in the
International Journal of High Speed Computing Applications
The concept of Purpose-Based Benchmarking (PBB) was proposed
to DARPA and Sun by Gustafson in late 2002, and received
immediate acceptance by both as the key to HPC productivity
measurement. DARPA went so far as to mandate the approach
in its HPCS Phase II proposal solicitation, and is working to
establish a "Top 500" supercomputing list based on PBBs.
This paper is probably the clearest presentation to date of
Gustafson's idea, dating back to about 1990, that
benchmarks must measure how well computers solve problems
and not how much activity they perform.
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