Re: [Physicsbench-general] game physics benchmarks (ISCA paper) (fwd)

[Thomas Y. <to...@CS...>]

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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Yeh <to...@cs...>
To: Kenneth Hoste <ken...@el...>
Subject: Re: game physics benchmarks (ISCA paper)

Hi Kenneth,

   ODE is a physics simulation library. All benchmarks uses this library
for physics simulation. An analogy would be when multiple games uses the same 
game engine. Would these be considered separate apps or one app with different 
inputs? It depends on your preference.

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   Well, it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. It may not be very 
effective to try to evaluate all domains that happen to have benchmark suites 
if there is no underlying theme.

Tom

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Kenneth Hoste wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> I've been looking into your PhysicsBench benchmark suite, and I have some 
> questions.
> 
> It seems to me that the benchmarks you describe in the ISCA paper (per, rag, 
> ..., mix) are actually inputs for one particular 'program', i.e. ODE. Is that 
> correct? Can ODE be viewed as one single application, with each of the 
> benchmarks desribed as inputs to that application?
> 
> Are you aware of any other domain-specific benchmark suites? I know about 
> BioPerf (bioinformatics), BioMetricsWorkload (biometrics) and MediaBench II 
> (multimedia workloads), but maybe you know some others too? I'd like to 
> expand my set of benchmarks as much as possible for future work...
> 
> greetings,
> 
> Kenneth
> 
> On 01 Aug 2007, at 05:21, Thomas Yeh wrote:
> 
>> Hi Kenneth,
>>
>>  Thanks for your interest. I have released a version of PhysicsBench at 
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/physicsbench/. Feel free to check it out.
>> Please refer to our ISCA 2007 paper if the benchmarks will be used for 
>> published work.
>> 
>> Tom Yeh
>> 
>> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Are there any plan to make the physics benchmarks decribed in this years 
>>> ISCA paper freely available for the community?
>>> I'm pretty familiar with available benchmarks, and I'm sure there's no 
>>> decent (free) benchmark suite out there concerning game workloads...
>>> 
>>> greetings,
>>> 
>>> Kenneth
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> 
>>> Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about 
>>> telescopes. (E. W. Dijkstra)
>>> 
>>> Kenneth Hoste
>>> ELIS - Ghent University
>>> email: ken...@el...
>>> blog: http://www.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste/blog
>>> website: http://www.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste
> 
> -- 
> 
> Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about 
> telescopes. (E. W. Dijkstra)
> 
> Kenneth Hoste
> ELIS - Ghent University
> email: ken...@el...
> blog: http://www.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste/blog
> website: http://www.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste