[Barrelfish-users] Barrelfish SPLASH2 Benchmarks

[Simon Peter]

Hi Shawn,

When you say "more than one process", is that what you actually mean?

We have run SPLASH2 using multiple threads. I was not aware there is a 
way to run it using multiple processes. If so, we certainly never tried...

  -- Simon

On 22.05.2012 09:26, Timothy Roscoe wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
>
> I'm cc'ing the barrelfish-users list, which is the best place to discuss
> questions like this - you'll get more responses, and anyone else can see
> the answers as well.
>
> It's a shame that the SPLASH-2 licence doesn't allow us to redistribute
> it (for some reason), but in older versions of Barrelfish we did make
> available a patch to SPLASH-2 to compile it for the OS.
>
> Simon Peter can probably supply more information, since he did the
> original port ARAIR.
>
> Note that Barrelfish has changed somewhat since the 2009 paper.  Also,
> SPLASH-2 is a bit long in the tooth - Parsec seems a better benchmark
> suite for scientific applications these days.
>
> Best regards,
>
>    -- Mothy
>
> On 05/21/2012 08:08 PM, Shawn Furrow wrote:
>> Timothy Roscoe,
>>
>> I am a graduate student at Virginia Tech and I am currently trying to
>> duplicate the SPLASH2 benchmarks from the "The Multikernel: A new OS
>> architecture
>> for scalable multicore systems" paper on my system. I realize that in
>> order to run the SPLASH2 applications for more than one process you need
>> a pthreads macro to replace the null one. I was wondering if you know
>> how your lab was able to deal with this issue in testing Barrelfish or
>> if you know where to find the correct macro. I know that coming from a
>> random person this request may seem odd but if you are able to help me I
>> would greatly appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shawn Furrow
>>
>> Virginia Tech
>> Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>> B.S. Electrical Engineering
>> B.S. Computer Engineering
>>
>
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