Co-Operative Research on Performance Evaluation in Supercomputing

从(1)计算机体系结构，(2)系统程序（包括操作系统和编译器），(3)基本库例程，(4)应用程序的角度来研究超级计算机的性能评价方法是重要而有效的。研究成果主要报告于ISS'91（国际超级计算研讨会，九州大学，1991年）和WBPE:（高性能计算基准和性能评价讲习班，东京，1993年）。Goto和Oyanagi提出了超级计算机架构性能评估的六个基准，并报告了使用这些基准的日立S-3800的性能结果。Tsuda等人报道了内存引用的性能评估，特别是矢量间接加载/存储指令。Nagai和Hatano报告了数学函数的性能评估结果，包括对函数参数依赖性的分析。对于应用程序层面的性能评价，选择了具体应用领域的各种问题，其中包括：流体力学、计算机图形学、电气工程和化学。

It is important and effective to investgate performance evaluation method of supercomputers, from view point of (1)computer architecture, (2)systems programs including operating systems and compilers, (3)basic library routines, (4)application programs. Research results are largely reported in ISS'91(International Symposium on Supercomputing, Kyusyu Univ.1991)and WBPE : (Workshop on Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation in High Performance Computing, Tokyo, 1993). Goto and Oyanagi proposed six benchmarks for performansce evaluation of supercomputer architectures and reported the result of performance of Hitachi S-3800 using their benchmarks. Tsuda et.al.reported performance evaluation of amemory reference, especially vector indirect load/store instructions. Nagai and Hatano reported results of performance evaluation of mathematical functions including analysis of dependency on function arguments. For performance evaluation at the level of application programs, various problems in specific application field were selected : among them are : fluid dynamics, computer graphics, electrical engineering and chemistry.