Document Title: credits.txt Subject: Credits for SPEC OMP2001 Last Updated: 17 Apr 2001 3pm wj ------------------------------------------------------------- Creating a single benchmark, let alone a suite of source code benchmarks to provide a consistent, comparative measure of SMP Parallel CPU-intensive performance, is not as simple as it may sound. The challenges are numerous, for example: - locating meaningful programs, - ensuring that they port to numerous environments, - defining rules to govern how the programs are compiled, run and reported. - developing a harness to enforce these rules while still making things easy to use. - defining a process by which decisions can be made amongst the group working on the project. And in the end, you hope you have something that is fair, relevant, easy to use, understandable and will address technology for a period long enough for you to start the next generation benchmark. Such is the case with SPEC OMP2001. While it did take longer than the 1 years originally envisioned, SPEC OMP2001 is a worthy extension of the framework of CPU2000. Comparing OMP2001 to CPU2000, it: - Focusses on parallel application performance in shared memory systems. - increases the high end stress on a system's memory subsystem. - provides the same tools to run the benchmarks - updates the same basic run rules. And all of this is due to the significant efforts of a large team of people from around the world, that I (and SPEC) would like to thank (with apologies and thanks to those who I may have not listed): - The many participants of the SPEC CPU2000 Search Program and, in particular, the authors that contributed programs that were made part of the suite: CFP2000 programs Name Program Bjoern Medeke 310.wupwise_m Alexander Gelfgat 318.galgel_m David O'Hallaron 320.equake_m Robert Harrison 332.ammp_m Samuel Key 328.fma3d_m David Carroll 326.gafort_m (For more information regarding these programs, see the documentation in the individual benchmarks directories.) - SPEC management, who while providing us resources, kept the SPEC HPG Committee on their toes: Kaivalya Dixit - President, SPEC Larry Gray - Treasurer, SPEC Dianne Rice, Kathy Powers, Debbie Kuhn - Administration, SPEC Jason Glick - Webmaster, SPEC - And last but most importantly, the people who sweated through technical details and porting issues on a daily basis, debated their view points vigorously, and were willing to drive issues to consensus. Without these people this benchmark suite would truly not exist: Vishal Ashlot, Larry Meadows And the following people who not only contributed to the technical details and daily porting issues, but also made additional contributions: Bodo Parady - Release manager Cloyce D. Spradling - tools Wes Jones, Greg Gaertner, Rudi Eigenmann, SUEYASU Naoki - contributors John Henning, Bodo Parady - insights and wisdom from past SPEC development efforts Plus all of the people behind the scenes in the compiler groups, architecture groups and performance groups who supported their work for SPEC at their respective companies. Thank you! Greg Gaertner Chair, SPEC HPG Chair April 15, 2001