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SPEChpc® 2002

The SPEChpc® 2002 benchmark is derived from real HPC applications and application practices, and measure the overall performance of high-end computer systems, including the computer's processors (CPUs), the interconnection system (shared or distributed memory), the compilers, the MPI and/or OpenMP parallel library implementation, and the input/output system.

Benchmark retirement

As of June 20, 2007, this benchmark has been retired. Results are no longer being accepted for publication on SPEC's site. Sales of the software were discontinued in February 2007, and technical support is no longer provided.

The SPEChpc® 2002 Benchmarks

The benchmarks which make up the suite are:

  • The SPECCHEM® 2002 benchmark, which is based on a quantum chemistry application called GAMESS and includes the SPECchemM 2002 performance metric and the SPECchemS 2002 performance metric.
  • SPECENV® 2002 benchmark, which is based on a weather research and forecasting model called WRF. It includes the SPECenvM 2002 performance metric and the SPECenvS 2002 performance metric, one for each dataset size.
  • The SPECSEIS® 2002 benchmark, which represents an industrial application that performs time and depth migrations used to locate gas and oil deposits and includes the SPECseisM 2002 performance metric and the SPECseisS 2002 performance metric.

Each of the three benchmarks has both Small and Medium workloads available.

Benchmark Features:

  • Code is selected from full HPC applications
  • Parallelism supported: serial, OpenMP, MPI, or combined MPI-OpenMP
  • Architectures supported: shared memory, distributed memory, clusters
  • IO and communication included in the benchmarks
  • Run rules tailored to HPC application environments
  • Implemented under SPEC tools for building applications, running with different data sets, verifying results and measuring runtime.

Results

Submitted Results

Text, HTML, PDF, PostScript file outputs for the SPEChpc 2002 benchmark metrics; includes all of the results submitted to SPEC from the SPEC member companies and other licensees of the benchmark.

Flag and Source Disclosures

Explanations from the testers elaborating on flags in the results' notes sections, and any source code modifications provided for peak performance results.

Information

Press Release

Benchmark announcement day press release materials:

Approved Alternate Source Codes

Some of the results submitted to SPEC and published on www.spec.org use alternate benchmark source code and/or third-party alternate software approved by SPEC. Licensees of the HPC benchmark suite may obtain the alternate source codes by sending an email request to info@spec.org.