The Extreme Benchmark Suite: Measuring High-Performance ...

The Extreme Benchmark Suite: Measuring
High-Performance Embedded Systems
by
Steven Gerding
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at
Los Angeles, 2003
Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science
in partial ful llmen t of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at the
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
September 2005
c Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005. All rights reserved.
Author ..............................................................
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
August 31, 2005
Certi ed by..........................................................
Krste Asanovic
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis Supervisor
Accepted by .........................................................
Arthur C. Smith
Chairman, Department Committee on Graduate StudentsThe Extreme Benchmark Suite: Measuring
High-Performance Embedded Systems
by
Steven Gerding
Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
on August 31, 2005, in partial ful llmen t of the
requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract
The Extreme Benchmark Suite (XBS) is designed to support performance measure-
ment of highly parallel \extreme" processors, many of which are designed to replace
custom hardware implementations. XBS is designed to ...