EPCC OpenMP micro-benchmark suite

These microbenchmarks are intended to measure the overheads of synchronisation, loop scheduling and array operations in the OpenMP runtime library.

Download

• Version 3.1 (C) gzip'd tar file (Bug fixes to arraybench on 21/8/2015)
• Version 2.0 (Fortran) gzip'd tar file

Documentation

Compiling and Running

Related Publications

J. M. Bull, Measuring Synchronisation and Scheduling Overheads in OpenMP, Proceedings of the First European Workshop on OpenMP, Lund, Sweden, 1999, pp 99–105. pdf

J. M. Bull and D. O’Neill, A microbenchmark suite for OpenMP 2.0,  SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 41–48, 2001. pdf

J. M. Bull, F. Reid and N. McDonnell, A microbenchmark suite for OpenMP tasks, in Proceedings of the 8th international conference on OpenMP in a Heterogeneous World (IWOMP '12) pp. 271-274, 2012 pdf

Status

Current versions are 3.0 for C and 2.0 for Fortran

Licence

​This code is provided under the Apache Licence, Version 2.0

Contact

Mark Bull or Fiona Reid