ParcBench: a benchmark for shared-memory architectures

PARCBench is a non-synthetic, multi-component benchmark written in C and directed at Unix-based shared-memory multiprocessor architectures. Unlike most conventional benchmarks PARCBench generates multivariate data to produce a characterization of shared-memory architectures which necessarily goes beyond the single timing datum.

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