BenSP is a suite of parameterizable benchmarks for stream parallelism which is used to evaluate stream processing characteristics.
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C. A. F. Maron, A. Vogel, D. Griebler and L. G. Fernandes. Should PARSEC Benchmarks be More Parametric? A Case Study with Dedup. 2019 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), Pavia, Italy, 2019, pp. 217-221. (PDF)
Contains the licenses of PARSEC, GPLv3 and from the images used in the input sets.
Dedup and Ferret applications (for now).
BenSP's utilies to manage the applications. The parsec_stream is the utility to compile, parameterize and execute the Dedup and Ferret applications.
Folder to save all logs from BenSP.
Set of scripts to automate experiments.
Other tools created for BenSP.
Utility Performance Library (UPL).
Start by installing all applications dependencies.
sudo apt-get install make build-essential m4 x11proto-xext-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev libtbb-dev libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libgsl-dev libjpeg-dev
BenSP Suite has several tools, librearies and files in many directories. In order to improve your experience with BenSP, the parsec_stream tool was built to parameterize, compile and run the BenSP benchmarks. Moreover, the tool organizes all logs of compiling and executing. To use parsec_stream, you must load the environment variables by executing the command line bellow:
source envorinment_var.sh
BenSP Suite offers input sets to use. You can download the input sets by executing the script download_input_sets.sh. (The script will require your contact information and how/here the inputs will be used.) Moreover, the benchmarks support your own custom input sets. If you wish to create another input, consider the related details shown here.
The parsec_stream tool makes easier your use of BenSP to evaluate the characteristics of Stream Processing. If it's your first time using of parametric benchmarks for this Stream Processing Domain, it's recommended that you understand the main parameterizable characteristics available in BenSP benchmarks. Basic information is presented [here] as well as on GMAP publications.
The main arguments in parsec_stream are:
-p PROGRAM binary that will be run
-i INPUT Input set used by the benchmark. Default: '$default_inputsize'
-n REPLICAS Number of parallel replicas. Default: '$default_nreplicas'
-a ACTION What do you want to do? run or change. See below for a list of valid changes.
-h Displays the help message.
If your choice was the run option or you didn't do any execution with change before, the parsec_stream will use as default the values from original PARSEC version.
parsec_stream -p dedup -r 12 -i h1 -a chunk 2048 fr 40 dd 40 comp 40 rr 40 notrace
parsec_stream -p dedup -r 12 -i hs -a chunk 1024 dd 40 comp 40 fr 40 rr 40 trace
parsec_stream -p ferret -r 2 -i l1 -a precision 128
parsec_stream -p ferret -t 12 -i h2 -a precision 128 seg 5 ext 5 idx 5 rank 5 ranking 50 notrace
Dedup and Ferret by BenSP Suite were modified from the original PARSEC version. To create your own input set, there are some details to follow. All limitations can be improved.
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Dedup
The Dedup application supports more then one file, unlike the original PARSEC version. However, these files must be in TAR format. Inside these files you can put any file type or format. This is a technical limitation of Dedup. The function that reads the files only processes TAR files. -
Ferret The Ferret application supports only JPEG/JPG images. Although the application was made to process image, audio, video and 3D shapes, the PARSEC version of Ferret only accepts images as input.