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The NAS (Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation) Parallel Benchmarks have been developed at NASA Ames Research Center to study the performance of parallel supercomputers. Major algorithmic improvements to the Embarrassingly Parallel (EP) Benchmark are described. Using IBM RS/6000 workstations and IBM SP-1 scalable parallel machines as examples, we also describe tuning techniques to obtain very high performance on this benchmark. Compared to the generic EP code, various algorithmic and tuning techniques have resulted in a performance improvement by nearly a factor of 18. The techniques described are generally applicable to many numerical algorithms on most RISC machines.
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Agarwal, R.C., Gustavson, F.G., Zubair, M. (1994). A very high performance algorithm for NAS EP Benchmark. In: Gentzsch, W., Harms, U. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57981-8_110
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