CommBench - A Telecommunications Benchmark for Network Processors

Authors

Tilman Wolf, Washington University in St Louis
Mark Franklin, Washington University in St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

1999-01-01

Filename

WUCS-99-29.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-99-29

Abstract

This paper presents a benchmark, CommBench, for use in evaluating and designing telecommunications network processors. The benchmark applications focus on small, computationally intense program kernels typical of the network processor environment. The benchmark is composed of eight programs, four of them oriented towards packet header processing and four oriented towards data stream procesing. The benchmark is defined and various characteristics of the benchmark are presented. These include instruction frequencies, computational complexity, and cache performance. These measured characteristics are compared to the SPEC benchmark which has traditionally been used in evaluating workstation processors. Three examples are presented indicating how CommBench can aid in the design of a single chip network multiprocessor.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7TM78CS

Recommended Citation

Wolf, Tilman and Franklin, Mark, "CommBench - A Telecommunications Benchmark for Network Processors" Report Number: WUCS-99-29 (1999). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/499