CS 6553 Performance Evaluation, Spring 1996 Assignment 3

Look at the SPECfp95 results on the web and use the data to order the 10 floating point benchmarks with the most parallelizable on top. Describe your methodology.

Read the following two papers:
Truth in SPEC Benchmarks, Computer Architecture News, Vol 23, No. 5, Dec. 1995.
by Mirghafori, Jacoby, and Patterson.
SPEC as a Performance Evaluation Measure, Computer, Vol 28, No. 8, August 1995.
by Giladi and Ahituv
and summarize the arguments for using the harmonic mean instead of the geometric mean. Pick 5 systems with CPUs from different manufacturers that have similar SPECfp95 values and calculate new SPEC values using the harmonic mean. Do this for both SPECfp95 and SPECfp_base95. Do the rankings of the machines change?