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The ALPBench Benchmark Suite for Multimedia Applications
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| Title: | The ALPBench Benchmark Suite for Multimedia Applications |
| Author(s): | Li, Man-Lap; Sasanka, Ruchira; Adve, Sarita V.; Chen, Yen-Kuang; Debes, Eric |
| Subject(s): |
parallel systems
multimedia applications computer science |
| Abstract: | Multimedia applications are becoming increasingly important for a large class of general-purpose processors. Contemporary media applications are highly complex and demand high performance. A distinctive feature of these applications is that they have significant parallelism, including thread- , data-, and instruction- level parallelism, that is potentially well-aligned with the increasing parallelism supported by emerging multi-core architectures. Designing systems to meet the demands of these applications therefore requires a benchmark suite comprising these complex applications and that exposes the parallelism present in them. This paper makes two main contributions. First, it presents ALPBench, a publicly released benchmark suite that pulls together five complex media applications from various sources: speech recognition (CMU Sphinx 3.3), face recognition (CSU), ray tracing (Tachyon), MPEG-2 encode (MSSG), and MPEG-2 decode (MSSG). We have modified the original applications to expose thread-level and data-level parallelism using POSIX threads and Intel's SSE2 instructions respectively. Second, the paper provides a performance characterization of the ALPBench benchmarks, with a focus on parallelism. Such a characterization is useful for architects and compiler writers for designing systems and compiler optimizations for these applications. |
| Issue Date: | 2005-07 |
| Genre: | Technical Report |
| Type: | Text |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/11070 |
| Other Identifier(s): | UIUCDCS-R-2005-2603 |
| Rights Information: | You are granted permission for the non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, BUT this permission is only for a period of 45 (forty-five) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s). |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2009-04-20 |
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