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Stanford Parallel Applications for Shared Memory (SPLASH)

This site will provide a list of the people currently involved with applications research at Stanford, information about the SPLASH suite of multiprocessor applications, access to the latest SPLASH distribution, and related papers.

The SPLASH-2 suite, consisting of several new applications as well as enhanced versions of some of the original SPLASH applications, is available here.

The SPLASH-2 suite is organized into two sections: kernels and applications. A partial list of the codes in this release follows.

Kernels:
Complex 1D FFT
Blocked LU Decomposition
Blocked Sparse Cholesky Factorization
Integer Radix Sort

Applications:
Barnes-Hut
Adaptive Fast Multipole
Ocean Simulation
Hierarchical Radiosity
Ray Tracer
Volume Renderer
Water Simulation with Spatial Data Structure
Water Simulation without Spatial Data Structure

Watch this site for new developments and new additions to the SPLASH-2 suite.

The original SPLASH suite has been moved and is now also available via http.

The applications provided in the SPLASH-2 suite were developed by a number of people. The report lists authors primarily responsible for the development of each application code. The codes were made ready for distribution and the README files were prepared by Steven Cameron Woo and Jaswinder Pal Singh.

SPLASH-2 Characterization Database

Some base application characterization information is available in the paper The SPLASH-2 Programs: Characterization and Methodological Considerations (see below). However, we have much more information about the characteristics of the programs than we could put in this paper. In order to provide access to this information so that researchers do not need to perform costly simulations to get the same information that we already have, we have created an on-line database and an interactive viewing tool that allows our growing database of information to be viewed in a variety of ways.

Publications

Steven Cameron Woo, Moriyoshi Ohara, Evan Torrie, Jaswinder Pal Singh, and Anoop Gupta. The SPLASH-2 Programs: Characterization and Methodological Considerations. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pages 24-36, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, June 1995. © 1995 by the ACM. Available: compressed PostScript (407 kB).

Jaswinder Pal Singh, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, and Anoop Gupta. SPLASH: Stanford Parallel Applications for Shared-Memory. In Computer Architecture News, vol. 20, no. 1, pages 5-44. Available: compressed PostScript (237 kB).

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