A test suite for high-performance parallel Java

A benchmark suite for high performance Java

Increasing interest is being shown in the use of Java for large scale or Grande applications. This new use of Java places speciic demands on the Java execution environments that could be tested and compared using a standard benchmark suite. We describe the design and implementation of such a suite, paying particular attention to Java-speciic issues. Sample results are presented for a number of ...

Grindstone: A Test Suite for Parallel Performance Tools✵

We describe Grindstone, a suite of programs for testing and calibrating parallel performance measurement tools. The suite consists of nine simple SPMD style PVM programs that demonstrate common communication and computational bottlenecks that occur in parallel programs. In addition, we provide a short case study that demonstrates the use of the test suite on three performance tools for PVM. The...

Developing a parallel benchmarking suite for Java Grande applications

A Grande application is one which requires large amounts of processing, I/O, network bandwidth, or memory. Grande applications include computational science and engineering codes, as well as large scale database applications, business and financial models. Increasing interest is being shown in the use of Java for Grande applications. The purpose of developing a parallel benchmarking suite is to...

A Parallel I/O Test Suite

Amongst its many features, MPI-2 offers the first standard highperformance I/O interface. While this enables a parallel and I/O intensive code to run on multiple platforms, achieving consistent performance levels will be more difficult than many users imagine. To better understand the I/O performance issues in MPI-2, fecit and Southampton have developed a parallel I/O test suite for Fujitsu Jap...

Measuring a Java Test Suite Coverage Using JML Specifications