Rodinia: A benchmark suite for heterogeneous computing

—This paper presents and characterizes Rodinia, a benchmark suite for heterogeneous computing. To help architects study emerging platforms such as GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), Rodinia includes applications and kernels which target multi-core CPU and GPU platforms. The choice of applications is inspired by Berkeley’s dwarf taxonomy. Our characterization shows that the Rodinia benchmarks cover a wide range of parallel communication patterns, synchronization techniques and power consumption, and has led to some important architectural insight, such as the growing importance of memory-bandwidth limitations and the consequent importance of data layout.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: IISWC
• Authors: Shuai Che, Michael Boyer, Jiayuan Meng, David Tarjan, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Sang-Ha Lee, Kevin Skadron
• Keywords: Berkeley’s Dwarf Taxonomy, Graphics Processing Units, IISWC 2009, Operating Systems, Rodinia Includes Applications