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arXiv:2401.16690 (cs)
[Submitted on 30 Jan 2024]

Title:A Detailed Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Influence of Hardware Artifacts on SPEC Integer Benchmark Performance

Authors:Yueyao Wang, Samuel Furman, Nicolas Hardy, Margaret Ellis, Godmar Back, Yili Hong, Kirk Cameron
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Abstract:The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) CPU benchmark has been widely used as a measure of computing performance for decades. The SPEC is an industry-standardized, CPU-intensive benchmark suite and the collective data provide a proxy for the history of worldwide CPU and system performance. Past efforts have not provided or enabled answers to questions such as, how has the SPEC benchmark suite evolved empirically over time and what micro-architecture artifacts have had the most influence on performance? -- have any micro-benchmarks within the suite had undue influence on the results and comparisons among the codes? -- can the answers to these questions provide insights to the future of computer system performance? To answer these questions, we detail our historical and statistical analysis of specific hardware artifacts (clock frequencies, core counts, etc.) on the performance of the SPEC benchmarks since 1995. We discuss in detail several methods to normalize across benchmark evolutions. We perform both isolated and collective sensitivity analyses for various hardware artifacts and we identify one benchmark (libquantum) that had somewhat undue influence on performance outcomes. We also present the use of SPEC data to predict future performance.
Comments: 32 pages; 14 figures
Subjects: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Applications (stat.AP)
Cite as: arXiv:2401.16690 [cs.CY]
  (or arXiv:2401.16690v1 [cs.CY] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.16690

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From: Yili Hong [view email]
[v1] Tue, 30 Jan 2024 02:30:22 UTC (9,721 KB)
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