sst-benchmarks

This repository contains benchmarks and related scripts and tools for studying SST-Core's performance and scalability. Learn more about SST here.

Currently, it includes:

• Benchmarks
• Containers
• A memory model
• Debug Use Cases

The benchmarks (found in their respective directories):

• pingpong - simulates messages bouncing back-and-forth in one or two dimensions.
• gameoflife - an SST-based implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
• phold - a benchmark widely used to assess the scalability and performance of parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) systems.

Containers

the sst-containers directory contains a container file for running SST-core on either a desktop or a Cray EX supercomputer. It also provides documentation on how to build and deploy the container.

Memory Model

The memoryModel directory includes a Jupyter notebook with a script that can be used to estimate SST core's memory usage and experiment with ideas on how to reduce its memory footprint.

Debug Use Cases

The debugCases directory contains small, focused scenarios (called use case stories) that demonstrate situations where a debugger may be desirable. We use these stories to examine the capabilities of SST's debugger and use them to motivate "wishlist" features that could be added to future versions. See the README for details.