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PARSEC is a large benchmark suite with high system requirements. The suite needs at least 8 GB of free disk space, but we recommend 12 GB or more. To download the whole distribution, you need additional 3 GB. Optionally you can also download any number of binary distributions that include precompiled binaries for each workload. Each binary distribution requires 0.5 GB to download and another 2 GB of disk space to unpack. The PARSEC benchmark programs have been parallelized with pthreads and OpenMP. You will need support for both standards if you want to use all workloads. gcc supports OpenMP since version 4.2.0. PARSEC also includes several publicly available libraries which are used by some of the benchmark programs:
PARSEC has been successfully tested on the following systems:
If you want all input sets and large file sizes do not bother you, you can use the following link to download the whole distribution. Precompiled binaries are not included.
Please cite our summary paper if you publish results that you have obtained with PARSEC. You should also check the PARSEC Wiki for any patches and bugfixes after you have downloaded the distribution. As an alternative to the full benchmark suite, we also provide the distribution broken up into several smaller archives which contain only parts of PARSEC. You have to download at least the core package, everything else is optional. In order to run meaningful experiments, you will also need one or more of the input packages.
We still maintain PARSEC 2.1. You can access them by the following links.
We offer precompiled binary distributions for PARSEC. Each package below includes multiple binary versions for each workload. Simulator support has been added where applicable. You can download and install any number of binary packages and keep them along with your own builds without any conflicts. Each binary distribution comes with its own README file that contains details about its features.
Other research groups have released their own modifications and extensions for PARSEC that complement the official benchmark suite. We know of the following independent project sites:
Once you have downloaded the PARSEC distribution to the directory where you would like PARSEC to be installed you can uncompress it. On Linux this can be done as follows:
tar -xzvf parsec-2.1.tar.gz gunzip parsec-2.1.tar.gz && tar -xvf parsec-2.1.tar If you downloaded PARSEC in several parts, or if you have downloaded any binary distributions, then copy all archives which you have into the same directory. Uncompress each one as described above. The files of the archives will be placed at the correct locations and the framework will automatically recognize and use them. The archives will need several minutes to decompress into a new directory. Once the process is finished, you should read the README provided to see how to build and run PARSEC.
Previous versions of the PARSEC benchmark suite are also still available. In almost all cases the latest versions of the suite will be the better choice. If you run into problems with older versions of PARSEC you will be entirely on your own.
The download pages of previous versions can be reached with the following links:
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PARSEC 3.0