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From: fritz@vlsi.Caltech.Edu (fritz nordby)
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Subject: Benchmarks wanted
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Date: 30 May 90 18:28:48 GMT
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Hello.

I'm looking for all the benchmarks I can find.
I know about SPEC, dhrystone, whetstone, linpack,
the Livermore kernels, and a few others.  What I'm
looking for are (1) what people have used as benchmarks,
and (2) where I can get the code they ran.

The types of benchmarks I'm primarily interested in are
CPU/memory benchmarks, but please, don't hold back, if
you know of something, send it to me.

I'm particularly interested (at the moment) in a group of
small CPU benchmarks: the Sieve of Eratosthenes, Ackermann's
function, Towers of Hanoi, Baskett's puzzle, quick-sort,
the 8-queens problem.  These benchmarks were popular around
the time of the original RISC papers, and in some cases I
have been able to find the algorithm, but I'm searching for
some of the algorithms and most of the input data sets.
If you know anything about these benchmarks, I'd very much
appreciate knowing what you can tell me.

Again, this is a rather peculiar request or rather particular
interest.  Please respond via e-mail.  If there is a general
interest, I will summarize what I find.

Thank you very much for your time, and for any help you can give.

	Fritz Nordby.	fritz@vlsi.caltech.edu	cit-vax!cit-vlsi!fritz