Evolution and evaluation of SPEC benchmarks
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Scheduling Strategies for Controlling Resource Contention on Multiprocessor Systems
HiPC '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing
Performance sensitivity of SPEC CPU2000 over operating frequency
ISICT '04 Proceedings of the 2004 international symposium on Information and communication technologies
MinneSPEC: A New SPEC Benchmark Workload for Simulation-Based Computer Architecture Research
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
SPEClite: using representative samples to reduce SPEC CPU2000 workload
WWC '01 Proceedings of the Workload Characterization, 2001. WWC-4. 2001 IEEE International Workshop
Measuring Benchmark Similarity Using Inherent Program Characteristics
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Performance scalability in multiprocessor systems with resource contention
ISPASS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
Tight analysis of the performance potential of thread speculation using spec CPU 2006
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Analysis of redundancy and application balance in the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite
Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News - Special issue on the 2006 reconfigurable and adaptive architecture workshop
BioBench: A Benchmark Suite of Bioinformatics Applications
ISPASS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2005
A Garbage Collection Technique for Embedded Multithreaded Multicore Processors
ARCS '09 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
Evaluation of Different Multithreaded and Multicore Processor Configurations for SoPC
SAMOS '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation
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PCMark®05 [4, 8] is a highly popular synthetic benchmark for evaluating the performance of personal computers (PCs) with millions of downloads via the Internet. Based on open source and commercial applications, it measures the execution time of highly representative code extracts of these applications and reports scores reflecting the overall system performance, the CPU performance, the memory subsystem performance, the graphics subsystem performance, and the disk subsystem performance. In this article, we focus on the PCMark®05 CPU test suite which is composed of 8 tests to measure the performance and scalability of various Intel single- and dual-core processors. Six of these tests run a single application each. One test runs 2 multitasked applications in parallel and another test runs 4 multitasked applications simultaneously. We present the results of executing this benchmark's CPU test suite on high end Intel-based PC platforms with top of the line single processor and dual core processors, present the results of our profiling and hotspot analysis, shed some light on this test suite's prominent microarchitecture events and its active threads' distributions, and characterize this suite's workload. These results help in understanding the performance characteristics of this popular benchmark and in guiding future processor design enhancements.