PARKBENCH: Methodology, Relations and Results

The ParkBench (PARallel Kernels and BENCHmarks) committee has establish a comprehensive set of parallel benchmarks. The ParkBench committee was founded at Supercomputing'92 in Minneapolis, when a group of about 50 people interested in computer benchmarking met under the joint initiative of Tony Hey (University of Southampton, UK) and Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory). Most of the key players were present, from the Universities, Laboratories and industries, representing both computer manufacturers and computer users from both sides of the Atlantic.