Giga-updates per second (GUPS) is a measure of

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. GUPS is a measurement of how frequently a computer can issue updates to randomly generated

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locations. GUPS measurements stress the latency and especially

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capabilities of a machine. The BSS Random Access benchmark was proposed by IBM Research (Bhatotia, Sabharwal and Saxena at ACM/IEEE HiPC 2010) for measuring random memory access capability (GUPS) of multicores platforms. The new benchmark overcomes some of the major limitations (such as streaming access pattern, etc.) of the HPC Challenge Random Memory Access benchmark.

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HPC Challenge Benchmark HPC Challenge Benchmark combines several benchmarks to test a number of independent attributes of the performance of high-performance computer (HPC) systems. The project has been co-sponsored by the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems progra ...

for measuring GUPS.
BSS Random Access Benchmark
Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Random Memory Access on Multicores with High Productivity (Best Paper Award) a
ACM/IEEE HiPC 2010
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